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The mitre or miter (from the Greek ?????, 'headband' or 'turban') is a type of headgear now known as the traditional, ceremonial head-dress of bishops and certain abbots in the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and also bishops and certain other clergy in the Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy.

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The camelaucum or ?????????, the ancestral headdress to the both the Western mitre and the Papal tiara, was originally a cap used by officials of the Imperial Byzantine court. In the late Empire it developed into the closed type of Imperial crown.

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Bishop: A bishop is an ordained member of the Christian clergy who, in certain Christian churches, holds a position of authority....

Roman Catholic Church: The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest organizational body of Christians. Its membership is over one billion. 1,085,557,000 is the figure, rounded to the nearest thousand, given in the 2003 Statistical Yearbook of the Church, page 43. Because of obstacles to reg...

Anglican Communion: The Anglican Communion is a world-wide organization of Anglican Churches. There is no single "Anglican Church" since each national or regional church has full autonomy; as the name suggests, rather, the Anglican Communion is an association of these churches in full communion with each other and part...

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Native Figures Milford Sound New Zealand Also Depicted Are Mitre Peak and Bowens Fall 1892