US EditionAnyone Can Shop at the Pope’s Rome Tailor
- Raniero Mancinelli, an 86-year-old tailor near the Vatican, is preparing three white papal robes ahead of the conclave starting May 7, 2025.
- Mancinelli has crafted clothing for popes since 1962 and built a clientele among clergy along the Vatican walls through personalized tailoring.
- The workshop, which connects to a shop selling religious attire, operates swiftly to accommodate unknown future pope sizes and ongoing clerical customers.
- Mancinelli explained that the future pope will choose from the three robes he has prepared, selecting the one that suits his size best.
- This tradition ensures the new pontiff receives a properly fitted robe amidst an uncertain successor, reflecting continuity in Vatican sartorial customs.
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Who saw the pope? He is the tailor who makes the cassock of the high pontiff.
After the uncertainty that was lived around the world for several days, Robert Francis Prevost is the new Pope from this 8th of May. And his cassock is ready thanks to Raniero Mancinelli, the tailor that you saw the Pope.At 86 years old, Raniero Mancinelli has dressed the last three popes and prepared the suit of the Pope Leo XIV in a tailory unique in the world, which can also boast of doing the curia that was part of the Conclave 2025, gathere…
Raniero Mancinelli, the tailor of the popes, who is preparing to dress the new pontiff
The new pope elected in the conclave that begins on May 7, who will be presented to the world from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, will wear one of the three garments that Raniero Mancinelli has on the table in his small workshop on Via Borgo Pio in Rome, just a stone’s throw from the Vatican. This 86-year-old tailor, who refuses to retire, is currently working at a frantic pace to make the next pontiff’s white robe. He is preparing it, as …
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