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The role of an Arch Bishop

by Lucy, Patsy and hannah

Purple

Bishops sometimes wear purple shirts or a purple sash / waist-band over a white cassock. The colour purple has been used since ancient times to symbolise a ruler or a leader of the people. The bishops ring is normally made of Amethyst

Bernard Longley

The Mitre

The Crook or The Crosier.

A Mitre is used to cover the Bishops head ,made out of two triangular stiffend matieral,which represents the Holy Spirts,the shapes of the toungues of fire.

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Bernard Longley has been Archbishop of Worcester and Birmingham since 2009 which is 8 1/2 years.

The crosier is the the symbol of the governing office of a bishop. A bishop carries this staff to show that he is a "shephard of the flock of God", (the community under his care).