Sedia gestatoria Father, so passes the glory of the world). The custom of carrying the newly elected pope, and formerly in some countries, a newly elected bishop to his church, can be traced back centuries and is comparable with the Roman use of the "sella curulis", on which newly elected consuls were carried through the city. Magnus Felix Ennodius, Bishop of Pavia, records in his "Apologia pro Synodo", "Gestatoriam sellam apostolicae confessionis", alluding to the Cathedra S. Petri, still preserved in the choir of St. Peter's at Rome. This is a portable wooden armchair, inlaid with ivory, with two iron rings on
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