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Photos of the Consecration

of

The Most Reverend Irvin N. Plant, D.D.

as Titular Bishop of Dansara in Osroene

and

First Bishop-Ordinary of the Missionary Diocese of the Southeast

Saturday October 15, 2011

at the Cathedral of the Air

located in the Town of Lakehurst, New Jersey



 

The Most Reverend

IRVIN NICHOLAS PLANT, D.D.



The Prostration and Litany of the Saints


The Presentation and Blessing of the Mitre


Father Morris Removes Bishop Plant's Binding Cloths


The Lady Choristers singing: Ave Maria and Panis Angelicus


Bishop Plant at the Altar


In the Vestibule the Clergy Chant the Final Hymn: Salve Regina


Bishop Plant cuts the cake at the reception which followed at the home of his daughter Susan.



Coat-of-Arms of

Bishop Plant



The Imposition of the Book of the Gospels


Investiture with the Mitre


Deacon Doughty Assisting Bishop Plant


Bishop Plant Bestows His First Pontifical Blessing


Bishop Plant Blesses Archbishop Ford and Bishop Natoli


Bishop Plant and his Chaplain: Deacon Sherril (Bud) Boynton


Bishop Plant holds a special gift from his cousin, presented to him at the reception: a stained glass window panel of the Coat-of-Arms of the North American Old Roman Catholic Church made by Diane McHutchinson of New Egypt, New Jersey.

Standing with the Bishop is Archbishop Ford who orginally designed the Church's Coat-of-Arms and who also designed the personal Coat-of Arms of Bishop Plant and the Coat-of-Arms of the Missionary Diocese of the Southeast.



Coat of Arms of the

Missionary Diocese of the Southeast





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