Saturday, June 27, 2026

Coats of Arms Approved for the URRC Russian Province

27 June 2026

The Office of H.A.H. the Most Holy Roman-Ruthenian Pope approved the following coats of arms: 

For H.Em. Cardinal Avgustin of Irkutsk, Baron of Crescencia, Primate of the Russian Lands of the URRC: 

Per pale, dexter (for the See of Irkutsk) per fess Azure and Gules; First: on waves Argent and Azure a Slavic church with walled enclosure Argent upon a mount Vert, accompanied in chief dexter by an estoile and in chief sinister by an Orthodox cross, Or; Second, a flaming heart Or pierced bendwise by an arrow Or; sinister (for the Cardinal himself), Or, a cross nebuly Gules charged at the centre with a flaming heart Or and between four babrs (in the style of Irkutsk) rampant Sable.

     The shield ensigned with a baronial coronet and a mitre of the Gallo-Russo-Byzantine Rite. Behind the shield is placed a crozier. The shield is set beneath a red galero with cords and fifteen tassels pendent on either side.

For the Russian Lands of the URRC:

Per pale, dexter per fess Azure and Gules; First: on waves Argent and Azure a Slavic church with walled enclosure Argent upon a mount Vert, accompanied in chief dexter by an estoile and in chief sinister by an Orthodox cross, Or; Second, a flaming heart Or pierced bendwise by an arrow Or. The shield is surrounded by a gold wreath joined in base with a ribbon of Gules and Azure. Upon the shield is set a mitre of the Gallo-Russo-Byzantine Rite.