crosier
crozier
bishop's staff
pastoral staff

He will also carry a crosier of the Eastern style.

The crosier of a bishop is turned outward or to the right.

The rabbi leaned heavily on his crosier and got up.

Suddenly he stopped breathing, and the crosier slid out of his hand.

A crosier was also carried on some occasions by the pope, beginning in the early days of the church.

He held out his crosier and touched them one by one.

Others suggest that it was named after the crosier, a staff carried by bishops.

The Eastern crosier is found in two common forms.

Tucked under his left arm was the silver staff, called the crosier, that he carried in public.

"But if I had a crosier I could have hit him with it."

A crosier is the hooked staff carried by bishops.

Finally, the English bishops thrust the crosier into his hands and took him to the church to be inducted.

The hall was originally the home of John Crosier and his family, who had taken ownership by 1624.

The Eastern crosier is shaped more like a crutch than a shepherd's staff.

The new tie also features the Bishop's Crosier symbol of the school.

If several bishops take part in the same celebration, only the presiding bishop carries the crosier.

But when he heard the tumult he took up his crosier and ran to see what was happening.

He leaned heavily on his crosier because his knees refused to support him any more.

But taking the root destroys the plant, so conservationists urge against using any part except the crosier.

Other insignia include the processional cross, the mitre and the crosier.

In Western Christianity, the crosier is shaped like a shepherd's crook.

It adds that, when several bishops join in a single celebration, only the one presiding uses a crosier.

The crosier is conferred upon a bishop during his ordination to the episcopacy.

"You keep quiet," the rabbi snapped, and he touched him reprovingly with his crosier.

Feeling dizzy, he drove his crosier into the ground and propped himself up on it so that he would not fall.