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 Catholic, Eastern Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox,Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church,and some Anglican, Lutheran, United Methodist and Pentecostal churches.
Western-style crozier of Archbishop Heinrich II of Finstingen [de] (1260–86) in the Treasury of Trier Cathedral
Eastern-style crozier of the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch with serpents representing the staff of Moses
Eastern Orthodox tau-shaped crozier belonging to St. Dimitry of Rostov in Rostov museum
Eufemia Szaniawska, Abbess of the Benedictine Monastery in Nieśwież with a crozier, c. 1768, National Museum in Warsaw
Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the head of an independent monastery for men in various Western Christian traditions. The name is derived from abba, the Syriac form of the Hebrew ab, and means "father". The female equivalent is abbess.
St. Dominic of Silos enthroned as abbot (Hispano-Flemish Gothic 15th century)
Coptic icon of Saint Pachomius, the founder of cenobitic monasticism
Carving of Saint Benedict of Nursia, holding an abbot's crozier and his Rule for Monasteries (Münsterschwarzach, Germany)
Thomas Schoen, abbot of Bornem Abbey
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