Defrocking
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Defrocking, unfrocking, degradation, or laicization of clergy is the removal of their rights to exercise the functions of the ordained ministry. It may be grounded on criminal convictions, disciplinar
Defrocking of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow
Vestment
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Vestments are liturgical garments and articles associated primarily with the Christian religion, especially by Eastern Churches, Catholics, Lutherans, and Anglicans. Many other groups also make use of
Defrocking
…procedure varies according to the Christian denomination concerned. The words "defrocking" or "unfrocking" refers to the ritual removal of the frock-like vestments of clergy and ministers. These rituals are generally no longer practiced and were sometimes separate from dismissals from ordained ministry, leading…
Different vestments of kneeling clergy at the elevation of the chalice at a Mass according to the Neo-Gallican Rite of Versailles
Karl XIV Johans kröning by Per Krafft the Younger (1818) depicting Evangelical-Lutheran bishops in vestments during the coronation of Charles XIV John in Stockholm Cathedral
Illustration of liturgical garments from Acta Eruditorum, 1713
Ornate vestments which are used by the Catholic clergy: a chasuble, dalmatic, cope, and a biretta