Showing posts with label Tabieh - Tabiah - طابية. Show all posts
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October 20, 2012

During Blessed John Paul II's Time

Patriarch Stephanos II of the Catholic Coptic Church with mitre

Kolpak and Tabieh

Tâdsch and Imam Sarığı (Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt)

Imam Sarik/Imam Sarığı  and white Turban

Blessed Pope John Paull II with chief rabbi Elio Toaff (wearing a Miznefet) during his visit of the synagogue of Rome on 13th April 1985


Rabbi with Migbaot


September 19, 2012

H.H. Pope Benedict XVI. visits the Lebanon

Article about the headgear of the Maronite clergy here


© picture: Voilà
Pope Benedict XVI shake hands with the leader of the Lebanese Druzes, Beirut airport
Fez with white carf wraped around



© picture: Herald Malaysia
Msgr. Antoine Gebran is Rector of Rome’s Pontifical Maronite College
with black tabieh


Patriarch Mar Bechara Boutros al-Rahi
wearing a red tabieh with escime

Patriarch Mar Bechara Boutros al-Rahi
wearing a black tabieh with escime

Patriarch Mar Bechara Boutros al-Rahi with black tabieh and former patriarch Cardinal Mar Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir with red alloussi

February 09, 2012

The Hats Worn by a Cardinal - Consistory on 18th February 2012


Shop window of Ditta Annibale Gammarelli, Rome
on 8th Ferburay 2012, 10 days before the consistory.
On Display:
The wardrobe of a cardinal

The biretta with 3 horns (blades, wings) a a littllstem of twisted cord on top,
made out of watered silk

Qob - biretta worn by the cardinals
Made of red silk with moiré effect.
The last cardinal worn this typ of Qob was Paul Cardinal Tzadua

Biretta of the Syro-Malabar Church
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during the consistory on 24th November 2012
wearing a mudi thoppi

The pileolus (zucchetto, soli deo) made out of watered silk

The cappello romano (sturno) made out of feld with hat cord in red/gold.
Thy type of hat alos availabe in beaver.

The galero



The non collapsible/foldable winter biretta made out of
heavy fulè (foulée), mixture of wool and cashmere.
Keeps the head very warm.
Today this type of biretta is no more in use.

made out of heavy red wool
on display at:

Consistory held on 27th June 1977:
Pope Paul VI. placed the biretta on Joseph Ratzinger's head

January 03, 2011

The Headgear of the Maronite Clergy

A priest of the Maronite Church wearing a black Alloussi

A priest of the Maronite Church wearing a black Alloussi

The Maronite Patriarch, Cardinal Mar Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, wearing a red Alloussi

Allousi - قللوسي
It is worn by the patriarch in red, by the bishops in red-purple (church violet, fuchsia, paonazzo) and by the priests in black.
The Alloussi has a little pompon on his top.

The Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Mar Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir wearing a black Tabieh

The Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Mar Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir wearing a red Escime and a red Tabieh. At the beginning of this ministry as patriarch, Cardinal Sfeir wore a red Tabieh and a red Escime, later he only wore only black head coverings.

A Maronite chorbishop wearing a black Tabieh

© Orbis Catholicus, 26th February 2011
A Maronite Bishop wearing a black Tabieh

Tabieh or Tabiah - طابية
It is worn by the patriarch, if he is cardinal in red and the bishops and priests in black

©  Orbis Catholicus
Maronite Clergy wearing a black Escime

Escime or Iscime - إسكيم
Normally the Escime is only worn by monks.
For in the past bishops were choosen among the monks,  nowadays the bishops continue to wear the Escime even if they have not been a monk before.
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