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Archbishop Rex Andrew Alarcon of Caceres was among around 40 archbishops appointed over the past year who received a pallium from Pope Francis, according to the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines .
The pallium is a woven band of lambs wool that serves as a sign of their communion and pastoral responsibility as shepherds. About two inches wide and worn on the shoulders, it is a stole-like vestment worn by metropolitan archbishops over their chasuble when celebrating Mass. Traditionally, new bishops were invested with the pallia by the pope at the same June 29 Mass. In 2015, however, the Pope changed this policy so that bishops would be invested with the pallia in their archdioceses by the local apostolic nuncio, as a sign of “synodality” with local churches.
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