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Rather, four locks of hair are clipped from the top of the head in the shape of a cross to mark their obedience to the Church. He placed on it a crown made not out of precious stones, but one which shines more than gold, topaz, or precious stone – with the stone and rock of faith.” In the Eastern Orthodox Church today, priests, deacons, readers, and other tonsured offices do not have their heads shaved. The Teacher Christ blessed this head, changed dishonour into honour, ridicule into praise. When he was sent out in the teaching and preaching of the Lord, his head was shaved by those who did not believe his word, as if in mockery. Germanus I, Patriarch of Constantinople from 715 to 730, writes "The double crown inscribed on the head of the priest through tonsure represents the precious head of the chief-apostle Peter. This is claimed to have originated with Saint Peter, and is the practice of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church.Īncient and medieval usage Eastern Christianity Clerical tonsure

The Roman: this consisted of shaving only the top of the head, so as to allow the hair to grow in the form of a crown.

Some sources have also suggested links between this tonsure and that worn by druids in the Pre-Roman Iron Age. It was opposed by the Roman tradition, but many adherents to the Celtic tradition continued to maintain the old way well into the 8th and 9th centuries. The Celtic tonsure was worn in Ireland and Great Britain and was connected to the distinct set of practices known as Celtic Christianity. More recently a triangular shape, with one point at the front of the head going back to a line between the ears, has been suggested. The shape may have been semicircular, arcing forward from a line between the ears, but another popular suggestion, less borne out in the sources, proposes that the entire forehead was shaved back to the ears.

The Celtic tonsure, the exact shape of which is unclear from the sources, but in some way involved shaving the head from ear to ear.

Hence Theodore of Tarsus, who had acquired his learning in Byzantine Asia Minor and bore this tonsure, had to allow his hair to grow for four months before he could be tonsured after the Roman fashion, and then ordained Archbishop of Canterbury by Pope Vitalian in 668.

This was observed in the Eastern churches, including the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches. The Oriental consisted of shaving the whole head.There were three forms of tonsure known in the 7th and 8th centuries: Tonsure was not widely known in antiquity.

The complete shaving of one's head bald, or just shortening the hair, exists as a traditional practice in Islam after completion of the Hajj and is also practised by a number of Hindu religious orders.Ĭeltic stone head from ancient Bohemia (150–50 BC), possibly depicting the form of the later Celtic Christian tonsure History and development It is also commonly used in the Eastern Orthodox Church for newly baptised members and is frequently used for Buddhist novices, monks, and nuns. Tonsure is still a traditional practice in Catholicism by specific religious orders (with papal permission). Current usage more generally refers to cutting or shaving for monks, devotees, or mystics of any religion as a symbol of their renunciation of worldly fashion and esteem. Tonsure can also refer to the secular practice of shaving all or part of the scalp to show support or sympathy, or to designate mourning. The term originates from the Latin word tonsura (meaning "clipping" or "shearing" ) and referred to a specific practice in medieval Catholicism, abandoned by papal order in 1972. Tonsure ( / ˈ t ɒ n ʃ ər/) is the practice of cutting or shaving some or all of the hair on the scalp as a sign of religious devotion or humility.