List of church coats of arms with the scallop

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This article contains the list of church coats of arms with the scallop.

Jacobshells or pilgrimshells are two closely related species of mussels, both belonging to the genus Pecten. The name Jacobshell goes back to Saint James, the patron saint of the pilgrims, whose distinguishing sign is the shell.

Popes

Innocent VI, 1352–1362

Benedict XVI, 2005–2013
Benedict XVI adopted as pope a new coat of arms designed by Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo. His papal coat of arms contains symbols that were already found in his archbishopic coat of arms: the Corbinian bear of the diocesan patron Korbinian from the city coat of arms of Freising as well as the crowned Mohren from the coat of arms of the archbishops of Munich-Freising, supplemented by a shell as a reference to a legend about the Pope's favorite theologian Augustine and the pilgrimage symbol of the Jacobshell. Surprisingly, he had the papal tiara rising for centuries with the crossed keys above the coat of arms shield replaced by a simple episcopal mitre, which, like the crown tires of the tiara, is decorated with three golden ribbons, which stand for the three powers of the pope: ordination, jurisdiction and magisterium. They are connected vertically in the center to show their unity in the same person. By the election of the Mitra instead of the tiara in the papal coat of arms is intended that of Benedict XVI. Again and again stressed collegiality of the bishops are presented. It also indicates the guiding principle of the papacy of the first centuries, according to which the pope as bishop of Rome was merely primus inter pares. Under the coat of arms – as a sign of the supervision and pastoral ministry of a metropolitan – the pallium is presented for the first time in a papal coat of arms.

Persons, institutions, etc.

Argentina

Samuel Jofré Giraudo, Bishop of Villa María

Héctor Rubén Aguer, Archbishop of La Plata

Australia

Kenneth Michael Howell, auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Brisbane

Brazil

Persons

Roque Costa Souza (* 1966), auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro

Jaime Vieira Rocha, (born 1947), Archbishop of Natal

Institutions

Basílica de Caconde

Chile

Ricardo Ezzati Andrello (* 1942), Archbishop Emeritus of Santiago de Chile and President of the Chilean Bishops’ Conference from 2010 to 2016

Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Archbishop Emeritus of Santiago de Chile

Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Cardinal’s coat of arms

Ignacio Francisco Ducasse Medina, Bishop of Valdivia since 2002

Francisco Javier Prado Aránguiz (1929–2020) was from 16 April 1993 to 23. April 2004 Bishop of Rancagua

China

Joseph Fan Zhongliang (1918–2014), Bishop of Shanghai

Germany

Persons

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, 1977 to 1982 Archbishop of Munich and Freising
The coat of arms of the bishop/cardinal Ratzinger was founded in 1977 by Claus D. Bleisteiner, a deuts