When Bishop Theophilus was elected monarch of the Far Isles
(then a principality), he was also elevated to the rank of archbishop.
Consequently, arms had to be approved for the Archdiocese of
the Far Isles.
The arms of the Far Isles are as follows:
Gules an oak branch slipped and fruited argent enbowed
palewise and an apple branch slipped and fruited or counter enbowed palewise.
Appearing thus
I always looked on differencing as a challenge, as the arms
must both look like the original and be significantly different.
I differenced these arms for the archdiocese by charging a
gold mitre between the two branches and adding white border argent with ten red
crosses.
The blazon becomes:
Gules a mitre or between an oak branch slipped and fruited
argent enbowed palewise and an apple branch slipped and fruited of the second
counter enbowed palewise within a border of the second with ten crosses pate of
the first.
Which looked like this
Until next time
Adieu