Investiture

In an investiture, a person may receive an outward sign of their membership, such as their religious habit, an ecclesiastical decoration (as with chivalric orders) or a scapular (as with confraternities);[1][2] they may be given the authority and regalia of a high office.

Investiture can include formal dress and adornment such as robes of state or headdress, or other regalia such as a throne or seat of office.

The investiture which takes place either as part of a liturgical celebration in the choir of the church or in the community's chapter house.

Established in the Spanish Constitution, the procedure consists in the candidate to prime minister defending its political program and the legislative chamber supporting it or rejecting it.

In the United Kingdom, around 2,600 people are invested personally by King Charles III or another senior member of the royal family each year.

[8] The poem "The Investiture" by English poet, writer, and soldier Siegfried Sassoon is about a young man who was killed in battle during World War I.