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crosier

a staff resembling a shepherd's crook carried by bishops and abbots as a symbol of office ceremonial staff in Christianity
Thing staff Q506002
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Summary

crosier is a staff[1]. crosier draws 2,511 Wikipedia views per month (staff category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: walking stick[3], insignia[4], ceremonial object[5]
  • Commons category: Croziers[6]
  • Depicted by: Predella with saints and angels[7]
  • Described by source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[8], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[9], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11]
  • Used by: bishop[12]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: concrete/abstract disjunction anomalies[13]
  • P14483: b/baculo-pastoral[14]

Why It Matters

crosier has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] crosier is known by 61 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17d ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-09-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → b/baculo-pastoral
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14483: b/baculo-pastoral, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/275195|batch #275195]]"
  2. 11w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Hugo Viana, Ben Gazzara
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-add:1||2 */ Biblissima authority id, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  3. 16w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    On focus list of wikimedia project → concrete/abstract disjunction anomalies
    Used by → bishop
    Described by source → Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +1
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36807|batch #36807]]: tag for concrete/abstract disjunction anomaly"
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