The pulpit gown, also called pulpit robe or preaching robe, is a black gown worn by Protestant ministers for preaching. It is particularly associated with Reformed churches, while also used in the Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, and Unitarian traditions.

It is commonly called the Geneva gown, especially in Reformed churches. The garment in Lutheran churches is the talar (talaris vestis), also called priesterrock (priest's robe) or chorrock (choir or chancel robe).

The gown, like academic and judicial gowns, is traditionally black, loose fitting with full length bell sleeves. It is often constructed from heavy material and features velvet facings running over the neck and down the front, mimicking the tippet or stole sometimes worn over it.

In the US and other countries where this forms a part of doctoral gowns, a minister who has earned a doctorate (e.g. DD, ThD, PhD) may wear three velvet bars on each sleeve, or simply wear his academic gown in the pulpit. The velvet panels of the gown's facings match the sleeves.

Contemporary choir robes are distinct from the Geneva gown, usually made with lighter and colorful fabrics and large open sleeves.

The Geneva gown represents the academic training the wearer has attained for the purpose of preaching. The gown has the effect of concealing the person, thereby emphasizing the office instead. In this way, it is a kind of uniform.

Modern gowns are often worn over a collared shirt with necktie or a clerical collar, with or without a suitcoat. A minister may also wear preaching bands and a stole. A lay preacher may wear a preaching scarf. Less typically a minister may wear white gloves when distributing elements of the Lord's Supper, a practice predating the advent of stainless steel chalices and communion trays. Open-front gowns are traditionally worn over the cassock and sometimes do not include sleeves, especially in Britain where Master's gowns sometimes feature drop sleeves (also called a set-in sleeve).

The Protestant Reformers objected to the theology of ordination in Roman Catholic Church and its prescribed priestly vestments. Andreas Karlstadt was the first to wear his black academic gown during the liturgy rather than contemporary clerical dress. Other Protestant ministers, (esp. Reformed), many of them former Catholic priests, followed suit. Unlike today, when academic regalia is generally reserved for ceremonies, this would have been the daily dress for the reformers. John Knox carried the custom from Geneva to Scotland in the 1570s. This was eventually defined as liturgical dress, and the traditional garment for those in leadership roles.