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Ecclesiastical decoration

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An ecclesiastical decoration is an order or a decoration conferred by a head of a church.

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Catholic ecclesiastical decorations

  • Patriarchal Order of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church
  • Order of Saint Ignatius of Antioch of the Syriac Catholic Church

    • Both are recognised as legitimate ecclesiastical decorations by the International Commission on Orders of Chivalry (2006):

    [T]he Commission accepts that these Ecclesiastical Decorations possess full validity as awards of merit or honours within the respective Churches which have instituted them.

    Local ecclesiastical distinctions

  • Jerusalem Pilgrim's Cross, established in 1901, conferred in the name of the Sovereign Pontiff at the office of the Custody of the Holy Land of the Order of Friars Minor in Jerusalem, Israel
  • Cross of Honour of the Abbot of Lilienfeld, founded in 1980
  • Order of Saint Nicholas, a regional lay order founded in 1991 by Bishop Ignatius Ghattas of the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton
  • Medal, Great Cross, and Golden Order of the Maronite General Council of the Maronite Church
  • Cross of São Tomé of the Roman Catholic Diocese of São Tomé and Príncipe in São Tomé and Príncipe

    • Other

    The Order of Saint Michael (Bavaria) (active 1693-1918), could also be said to initially have had shared traits of an ecclesiastical decoration, as awarded by the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne.

    Anglican Communion

  • Cross of St Augustine

    • References

    Ecclesiastical decoration Wikipedia
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