Sedia gestatoria an elaborate variation on the sedan chair. Two large fans ("flabella") made of white ostrich feathers —a relic of the ancient liturgical use of the "flabellum", mentioned in the "Constitutiones Apostolicae"— were carried at either side of the "sedia gestatoria". The ceremonial throne was mainly used to carry popes to and from papal ceremonies in the Basilica of St. John Lateran and St. Peter's Basilica. The "sedia" was used as part of papal ceremony for nearly a millennium. Its origins are sometimes thought to date back to the Byzantine Empire where Byzantine emperors were carried along in a similar manner,
Religion in Russia small [[Russian Greek Catholic Church]] as a [[Byzantine Rite]] church "sui juris" ("of its own jurisdiction") in [[full communion]] with the Catholic Church. Various denominations of Protestantism, both historical and [[Evangelicalism|Evangelical]], as well as [[Pentecostalism]], were the religion of 0.2% (300,000) of the population of Russia in 2012. Their number was slightly more than 1% only in [[Tuva]] (1.8%), [[Udmurtia]] (1.4%) and the [[Altai Republic]] (1%). [[Lutheranism]] has been on a continuous decline among Finnish and German ethnic minorities, while it has seen some Russian converts, so that some traditionally Finnish churches, like the [[Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria]], today