PATRIARCHAL INSTRUCTION ON THE RITE FOR NEW PORTERS

Following their ordination, new Porters should proceed, once all rites and liturgy have been completed for the ordination to the Order of Porter, to the doors of the church. There they should open and close the doors and then ring the church bell. They are led to the doors and assisted by the Archdeacon or some other appointed cleric. The new Porter wears cassock, surplice, and, if the ordination takes place outside the mass, the zucchetto.