“Tusk Fragment with the Ascension” showing Mary as
bishop of bishops.
Ivory
icon from Egypt or
Palestine, dated 720
to 970
In the collection of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art
CC0 License (image in the public domain)
Mary as Bishop of Bishops
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