Clerical clothing

• Married priests can wear an exorasson or zostikon when not celebrating Liturgy and may opt to wear the more informal skufia over the more formal kalimavkin. They may also wear a vest called a kontorasson, usually during colder weather. The colors of their cassocks vary between the typical black, grey and blue.
• Monks, hieromonks & bishops all wear the klobuk as part of their mark of celibacy. Some monks will wear the zostikon, kontorasson and skufia when doing daily work around a monastery.
• Readers & subdeacons rarely wear a cassock outside of church but are often required to wear one in church when not serving.
• In the Greek tradition, chanters will often wear an exorasson directly over their secular clothing (i.e. without an inner cassock/anteri) during liturgical services. A Chanter who is a seminarian, or a tonsured Reader or Subdeacon, may on occasion wear an anteri instead of an exorasson while at the Chanter's Stand.

According to the 1604 Canons of the Church of England, the clergy were supposed to wear cassock, gown, and cap whilst going about their duties. The cassock was either double or single-breasted; buttoned at the neck or shoulder and was held at the waist with a belt or cincture. The gown could either be of the special clerical shape – open at the front with balloon sleeves – or the gown of the wearer's degree. This was worn with the Canterbury cap, which gradually stiffened into the familiar 'mortar board' in the course of the 17th and 18th centuries. Cassock and gown were worn as an outdoor dress until the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the Canterbury cap being replaced by the mortarboard or tri-corn hat latterly. Increasingly, though, ordinary men's clothing in black, worn with a white shirt and either a black or white cravat, replaced the dress prescribed by the Canons.^[10]

En el siglo XIX, era común entre los caballeros usar un cuello desmontable que se lavaba y almidonaba por separado de la camisa. Inicialmente, con el cuello desmontable, el clero anglicano usaba una corbata blanca, más tarde una pajarita blanca, con un chaleco de cuello alto y una levita clerical holgada que se asemejaba a una sotana hasta la rodilla con múltiples botones a la altura de la cintura. Como alternativa, podían usar la levita de caballero de estilo normal y un rabat (véase más arriba). A principios de siglo, los evangélicos solían usar levitas de cola de golondrina para distinguirse del clero de la alta iglesia, que prefería la levita. Esta distinción se menciona incluso en 1857, cuando se alude a ella en Las torres de Barchester de Anthony Trollope . A mediados de siglo, el clero anglicano comenzó a usar el cuello al revés, creando las primeras versiones del «cuello de perro». Esta forma de vestimenta distintiva se consideraba una afectación controvertida del partido de la alta iglesia, pero con el paso del tiempo, el cuello vuelto hacia atrás se hizo más común e incluso sobrevivió a la desaparición de los cuellos desmontables entre el público en general. Si bien el chaleco negro ha dado paso a la camisa negra, el cuello se ha convertido en parte diaria del atuendo clerical para la mayoría del clero anglicano. Sin embargo, algunos clérigos anglicanos se unen a los ministros de iglesias reformadas para prescindir por completo de los atuendos clericales distintivos. ^{[ 11 ] [ 12 ]}

Durante el siglo XX, los obispos anglicanos comenzaron a usar camisas moradas (oficialmente violetas) como símbolo de su cargo. Junto con la cruz pectoral y el anillo episcopal , esto los distingue del resto del clero en apariencia. Si bien no existe ninguna ley entre las iglesias de la Comunión Anglicana que impida a otros miembros del clero usar una camisa morada, generalmente no se considera apropiado hacerlo.

Hasta el período de la Regencia, el clero anglicano solía usar la sotana en público. Tras un cierto resurgimiento a mediados del siglo XX, esta costumbre es ahora menos común. El tocado anglicano tradicional que acompañaba a la sotana era el gorro de Canterbury, que hoy en día se usa con poca frecuencia. Muchos clérigos anglocatólicos aún usan la birreta . Desde mediados del siglo XVIII, los obispos y archidiáconos tradicionalmente usaban una versión acortada de la sotana, llamada delantal (que llegaba justo por encima de la rodilla), junto con calzones y polainas . Las polainas, abotonadas a un lado, cubrían la pernera del pantalón hasta un punto justo debajo de la rodilla. Esta vestimenta cotidiana, común hasta la década de 1960, está ahora casi extinta. (Era apropiada para ellos en la época en que parte de sus viajes eran a caballo, pero se mantuvo hasta mediados del siglo XX).

Some Anglican clergy favour a double-breasted cassock (known as a Sarum cassock), often with an external button at chest level on which to hook an academic hood (which is worn as part of the choir habit). However, many clergy, especially most Anglo-Catholic clergy, choose the single breasted cassock. Like Roman Catholic clergy, some Anglican clergy wear the fascia (known within Anglicanism as a cincture) around the waist, while others prefer a belt. Where extra protection from the elements is needed a cloak may be worn over the cassock.

Clergy of the Royal Peculiars, senior chaplains to the forces, members of the Chapels Royal and honorary chaplains to the King may wear a scarlet cassock and a special badge (the King's cipher surmounted by St Edward's crown surrounded by oak and laurel leaves) on their scarf.

It has been mentioned above that the headcover normally worn with the cassock is the biretta (for Roman Catholics) or the Canterbury Cap (for Anglicans). In the 19th century, like most men of the time, clergy wore the tall silk (top) hat with their outdoor dress and this remained traditional for bishops and other senior clergy for many years.^[13] However many clergy preferred to wear the cappello romano, a distinctive broad brimmed round topped hat resembling a low crowned bowler and this remained popular until World War I, when it tended to be substituted by the dark or black Homburg style hat worn by many professional men until more recent times.

Lutheran clerical clothing varies depending on locality and denomination. The clerical clothing of Lutheran pastors and bishops often mirrors that of Catholic clergy: clerical shirt and a detachable clerical collar.

In Scandinavia, but also in Germany, Lutheran bishops usually wear a pectoral cross. Danish clergy will wear a black cassock, as in Anglican and Catholic traditions, but with a distinctive ruff. Pastors in the old Hanseatic towns of Hamburg and Lübeck may also wear ruff ("Halskrause" in German). The ruff is a large collar, stiffly starched, worn over the top of a full clerical collar. Until the 1980s, this used to be the custom in Norway also, and was a relic of the period when Denmark-Norway had shared a common monarchy (1384-1814).^[14] In Sweden, a distinctive form of frock coat (called kaftan) was worn by the clergy, and is still seen on formal occasions when it is worn with a stand-up collar and short bands. German pastors usually wear a black gown with two white preaching tabs when conducting services. For non-liturgical events, they wear ordinary clothing or a clerical shirt and collar. For more formal occasions they may wear a black Lutherrock, a form of frock coat.

In the U.S., Lutheran clergy often a clerical color with a buttoned-down shirt (various colors) is worn with dress slacks or a skirt.^[15][16]

Most traditional Presbyterian churches, whether in mainline American denominations like the PC (USA) or evangelical like the PCA, have departed wearing the Geneva gown which came from John Calvin's attire preaching in Geneva. Many now will wear cassocks with perhaps another robe and clerical tabs. However, other Presbyterians also will wear cassocks. This is also common practice among Canadian Presbyterians and the Church of Scotland.