The pallium is an ecclesiastical vestment in the Catholic Church, originally peculiar to the pope, but for many centuries bestowed by the Holy See upon metropolitans and primates as a symbol of their
The pallium of Pope John XXIII, which is the current design, displayed in the museum of the Archdiocese of Gniezno
Pope Innocent III depicted wearing the pallium around the breast in a fresco at the Sacro Speco Cloister
Christ as the Good Shepherd, carrying a lamb on his shoulders. Image of a mosaic from circa AD 300–350 at the Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta, Aquileia.
Raban Maur (left), Alcuin (middle) and Archbishop Otgar of Mainz (right), wearing the pallium. From a 9th-century manuscript.
Pope Leo XIV is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City.
Pallium
…2014, after using Benedict XVI's second pallium for more than a year, Pope Francis restored the traditional pallium worn by popes prior to Benedict. Pope Leo XIV also used the present-day pallium for his inauguration in 2025, the first since Pope John Paul II's inauguration in 1978 (Pope Benedict XVI wore the…
Prevost in 1977, the same year he entered the Augustinian order
Prevost spent his novitiate at Immaculate Conception Church in St. Louis, Missouri.
Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mary, Trujillo. As a young missionary, Prevost served in various roles in the Archdiocese of Trujillo.
St. Thomas School in Hyde Park, Chicago