In recognition of their long-standing friendship and in honor of his incardination into the UACC, Presiding Bishop Tony Hash, OSB, has awarded Bishop Carl Purvenas-Smith, OSB, a new Episcopal Crest.
The blue background and three gold crowns represent his homeland of Sweden ad the raven with the word pax memorializes his life as a Benedictine. Bishop Carl is the Abbot of the Contemporary Benedictines of Peace a religious order of the United American Catholic Church.