Choir dress
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Choir dress is the traditional vesture of the clerics, seminarians and religious of Christian churches worn for public prayer and the administration of the sacraments except when celebrating or concel
Bishop in choir dress with train
Choir dress of a Cistercian nun: a long white cowl
Norbertine abbot in white prelate choir dress, 18th century
Monsignor Herrincx in Franciscan brown prelate choir dress
Surplice
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A surplice is a liturgical vestment of Western Christianity, particularly in Latin Catholicism, Evangelical-Lutheranism and Anglicanism. The surplice is in the form of a tunic of white linen or cotton
Choir dress
…or priest in a religious order that has its own habit (Benedictines, Franciscans, Dominicans, etc.), the habit is worn in place of the cassock, the surplice (or rochet if the wearer is a bishop, cardinal, or canon), and the biretta (optional for secular priests unless their bishop requires its use, in which…
Seminarian vested in a pleated Roman-style surplice with lace inserts, (shown in white) holding a thurible.
The Death of St. Bede, the monastic clergy are wearing surplices over their cowls (original painting at St. Cuthbert's College, Ushaw).
Abbess Joanna van Doorselaer de ten Ryen, in choir dress. Waasmunster Roosenberg Abbey.
An altar server stands before the priest during the reading of the Gospel in the offering of the Holy Mass at Saint Mary's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Helsingborg, Sweden