zucchetto

In turn, the prelate is privileged to wear his zucchetto, not entitled.

It is, however, quite common for priests assigned to the Vatican to always wear their black zucchetto.

There is also a tradition of friends buying the newly appointed bishop his first zucchetto.

The zucchetto is never worn with a suit.

In the Catholic tradition, the zucchetto is most commonly made of silk or polyester fabric.

Sheen also gave his zucchetto as a keepsake to laity who requested it.

The most immediately noticeable feature is a white cassock and zucchetto (skull cap).

Similar to the yarmulke is the zucchetto worn by Roman Catholic clergy.

Others allude to its shape as closely resembling a cardinal's skullcap or zucchetto.

His is the red zucchetto of a prince of the Roman Catholic Church.

Today, only the scarlet zucchetto and biretta are placed over the heads of cardinals in consistory.

The common tradition is for the cleric to obtain the zucchetto either from an ecclesiastical tailor or a retail church supply.

The one exception to the rule of color is the brown zucchetto frequently worn by ordained Franciscan friars.

Zucchetto, worn by Catholic clergy (including the Pope)

The stirpes is the primary visual distinction between the zucchetto and the Jewish kippah.

This is the reason for two of the alternate names for the zucchetto, subbirettum and submitrale.

Jutting from the centre of the zucchetto at the top is the "stem", known as stirpis or stirpes.

It is made of a twisted loop of silk cord and is meant to make the handling of the zucchetto easier.

The most common Anglican design can be similar to the Catholic zucchetto or, far more often, similar to the Jewish yarmulke.

A white zucchetto and a white bishop's mitre adorned John Paul II's head.

The zucchetto is always worn beneath the mitre and is always worn beneath the biretta.

A form of the zucchetto is worn by Anglican bishops and is used approximately like that of the Catholic Church.

The zucchetto, the biretta, and the galerum rubrum are all scarlet, the distinctive color of cardinals' vestments.

Anglican bishops generally make use of the mitre, crosier, ecclesiastical ring, purple cassock, purple zucchetto, and pectoral cross.

The answer, of course, is a skullcap - zucchetto in Italian, kipa in Hebrew or yarmulke in Yiddish.