Sedia gestatoria Sedia gestatoria The gestatorial chair ("sedia gestatoria" in Italian, lit. "chair for carrying") was a ceremonial throne on which Popes were carried on shoulders until 1978, and later replaced outdoors in part with the Popemobile. It consists of a richly adorned, silk-covered armchair, fastened on a "suppedaneum", on each side of which are two gilded rings; through these rings pass the long rods with which twelve footmen ("palafrenieri"), in red uniforms, carry the throne on their shoulders. On prior occasions, as in the case of Pope Stephen III, popes were carried on the shoulders of men. The "sedia gestatoria" is
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