crosier

crosier
—crosiered, adj.
/kroh"zheuhr/, n.
1. a ceremonial staff carried by a bishop or an abbot, hooked at one end like a shepherd's crook. See illus. under cope2.
2. Bot. the circinate young frond of a fern.
Also, crozier.
[1350-1400; short for crosier-staff; ME crosier staff-bearer < MF; r. ME crocer < AF. See CROSSE, -ER2]

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also spelled  crozier , also called  pastoral staff 
 staff with a curved top that is a symbol of the Good Shepherd and is carried by bishops of the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and some European Lutheran churches and by abbots and abbesses as an insignia of their ecclesiastical office and, in former times, of temporal power. It is made of metal or carved wood and is often very ornate. Possibly derived from the ordinary walking stick, it was first mentioned as a sign of a bishop's ruling power in 633 at the fourth Council of Toledo. French bishops adopted it in the late 8th century, and it was gradually adopted throughout Christendom. Originally a staff with a cross, sphere, or tau cross on top, it acquired its present form by the 13th century.

      Bishops of the Eastern churches carry the baktēria (dikanikion), a pastoral staff with either a tau cross or two serpents facing each other on top.

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(of an archbishop)


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