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Text transcribed from caption: #757 BEARDED BISHOPS Here is a gallery of
leading European Eastern Orthodox bishops, dressed in imposing robes and
waring [sic. wearing] the picturesque klobuk, or mitre. All have strong,
interesting faces, and wear their beards long, in imitation of Christ and the
early disciples, as is traditional among all Orthodox clergy, except in the
United States and other non-European areas, where priests are frequently
clean-shaven. The group also wears the panagia, or chain, to which is
attached an image of the Savior or of the Blessed Virgin. Eastern Orthodox
Christianity comprises a group of national churches under the jurisdiction of
the patriarchates of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem.
Russia, largest of all Orthodox countries, has her own patriarchate in
Moscow. The Eastern churches hold staunchly to their age-old customs and
traditions.