Ster van de Orde van Sint-Sava 1883 - 1903

An ecclesiastical decoration is an order or a decoration conferred by a head of a church.

Catholic ecclesiastical decorations

Orders, decorations, and medals of the Holy See

Other Catholic distinctions

Local ecclesiastical distinctions

* Jerusalem Pilgrim's Cross, established in 1901, conferred in the name of the Sovereign Pontiff at the office of the Custody of the Holy Land of the

Order of Friars Minor The Order of Friars Minor (commonly called the Franciscans, the Franciscan Order, or the Seraphic Order; Post-nominal letters, postnominal abbreviation OFM) is a Mendicant orders, mendicant Catholic religious order, founded in 1209 by Francis ...

Jerusalem Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world, and ...

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

* Cross of Honour of the Abbot of Lilienfeld, founded in 1980, of the

Abbot Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the head of an independent monastery for men in various Western Christian traditions. The name is derived from ''abba'', the Aramaic form of the Hebrew ''ab'', and means "father". The female equivale ...

Lilienfeld Lilienfeld () is a city in Lower Austria (Niederösterreich), Austria, south of St. Pölten, noted as the site of Lilienfeld Abbey. It is also the site of a regional hospital Landesklinikum Voralpen Lilienfeld. The city is located in the valley o ...

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

* Order of Saint Nicholas, a regional lay order founded in 1991 by Bishop Ignatius Ghattas of the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton * Medal, Great Cross, and Golden Order of the Maronite General Council of the Maronite Church * Cross of São Tomé of the Roman Catholic Diocese of São Tomé and Príncipe in

São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is an island country in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. It consists of two archipelagos around the two main isla ...

Eastern Orthodox ecclesiastical decorations

Several autocephalous churches of the

Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, is one of the three main Branches of Christianity, branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholic Church, Catholicism and Protestantism ...

communion award ecclesiastical decorations. Others include: * The Byzantine Order of the Holy Sepulchre, awarded by the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem. * The Order of the Holy Lamb (est. 1935), awarded by the Finnish Orthodox Church. * The Order of Bishop Platon (est. 1922), awarded by the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church.

Anglican Communion

In addition to the Lambeth degree, the

Archbishop of Canterbury The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the Primus inter pares, ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the bishop of the diocese of Canterbury. The first archbishop ...

awards the following to recognise outstanding service in various fields. * Archbishop of Canterbury's Award for Outstanding Service to the Anglican Communion * Cross of St Augustine for contributions to the life of the worldwide Communion, or to a particular autonomous church within Anglicanism, or members of other traditions who have made a conspicuous contribution to ecumenism * Lambeth Cross for Ecumenism * Canterbury Cross for Services to the Church of England *Archbishop's Awards for ministry priority areas (six awards named after former Archbishops of Canterbury) **Dunstan Award for Prayer and the Religious Life **Hubert Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation **Alphege Award for Evangelism and Witness **Lanfranc Award for Education and Scholarship **Langton Award for Community Service **Cranmer Award for Worship

Methodism

* Honourable Order of Jerusalem, the highest distinction presented by the

World Methodist Council The World Methodist Council (WMC), founded in 1881, is a consultative body that represents churches within Methodism and facilitates cooperation among its member denominations. It comprises 80 denominations in 138 countries which together repres ...

. It is conferred for exceptional service to the Methodist Church.

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