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===Official blazon=== | ===Official blazon=== | ||
Sable, two lions combatant supporting a cross-staff or. | |||
===Origin/meaning=== | ===Origin/meaning=== | ||
As common in US episcopal heraldry, the arms show the arms of the diocese impaled with the personal arms of the bishop. | |||
The personal arms are based on the arms of a Carroll family from Ireland as a symbol for his family name. On the original family arms the lions hold up a sword : as an appropriate difference, this has been changed to the processional cross of a bishop. | |||
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