A crozier or crosier is a stylized staff that is a symbol of the governing office of a bishop or abbot and is carried by high-ranking prelates of Roman ...

The crosier is used in ecclesiastical heraldry to represent pastoral authority in the coats of arms of cardinals, bishops, abbots and abbesses. From. Wikipedia.

A crosier is a staff with a curved top that is carried by bishops of the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and some European Lutheran churches and by abbots and ...

1. a staff resembling a shepherd's crook carried by bishops and abbots as a symbol of office 2. a plant structure with a coiled end.

2 meanings: 1. a staff surmounted by a crook or cross, carried by bishops as a symbol of pastoral office 2. the tip of a young.

The crosier is an ecclesiastical ornament which is conferred on bishops at their consecration and on mitred abbots at their investiture, and which is used by ...

The Crosiers or Brethren of the Cross or crutched friars is a general name for several loosely related Catholic orders, mostly canons regular.

A long staff with a spiral head, like an elaborate shepherd's crook, symbolic of a bishop's authority. A pastoral staff is recorded in the 7th century as ...

15 сент. 2023 г. · It is a liturgical ornament that is a sign of authority and jurisdiction and today we wished to consider a bit of the history of this object.

noun · a ceremonial staff carried by a bishop or an abbot, hooked at one end like a shepherd's crook. · Botany. the circinate young frond of a fern.