Papal tiara tiara bearing three crowns. The papal tiara was never worn for liturgical celebrations, such as Mass. At such functions the Pope, like other bishops, wore a mitre. However, a tiara was worn during the solemn entrance and departure processions, and one or more could be placed on the altar during the elaborately ceremonial Pontifical High Mass. The tiara was thus worn in formal ceremonial processions, and on other occasions when the pope was carried on the "sedia gestatoria", a portable throne whose use was ended by Pope John Paul II immediately after his election in October 1978. His short-lived predecessor,
Ekaterina Sedia list. In addition, Sedia was the editor for Jigsaw Nation and the World Fantasy Award-winning "". In addition to writing, she teaches ecology and evolution courses as a professor at Stockton University in Galloway, New Jersey. Ekaterina Sedia was born on July 9, 1970 in Moscow, Russia, as Ekaterina Holland. She grew up in Moscow and attended Moscow State University; at 21, she moved to Boston, where she worked as a research assistant at MIT's Department of Brain Cognitive Sciences. She later attended graduate school in New Jersey at Rutgers University, where she received a degree in plant ecology. Sedia