Crosier (disambiguation)

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A crosier, or crozier, is the stylized staff of office carried by high-ranking Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, some Lutheran and Pentecostal prelates.

Crosier or Crozier may also refer to:

• Crozier (crater), a lunar crater
• Crozier (mycology), an anatomical feature of many fungi in the phylum Ascomycota
• Canons Regular of the Holy Cross, a Roman Catholic order whose members are known as Crosiers
• Cape Crozier, the most easterly point of Ross Island in Antarctica
• Crozier Island, off the northwest coast of Greenland
• Fiddlehead fern, the unfurled fronds of a young fern

Crozier is the name of:

• Adam Crozier (born 1964), Scottish chief executive of the Royal Mail
• Andrew Crozier (born 1943), British poet
• Bill Crozier, American politician
• Brian Crozier (born 1918), British historian, strategist, and journalist
• Bruce Crozier, Canadian politician
• Daniel Crozier, American composer and academic
• Eric Crozier (1914–1994), British theatrical director and opera librettist
• Francis Crozier (1796–1848), British polar explorer
• Frank Crozier, Australian war artist of the First World War
• Greg Crozier (born 1976), Canadian ice hockey player
• Joe Crozier (born 1929), Canadian ice hockey coach
• John Baptist Crozier (1858–1920), Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh
• John Hervey Crozier (1812–1889), American politician
• Leif Newry Fitzroy Crozier (1846–1901), Canadian militia officer and a superintendent of the North-West Mounted Police
• Lorna Crozier (born 1948), Canadian poet
• Michel Crozier (born 1922), French sociologist
• Robert Crozier (1827–1895), American politician
• Roger Crozier (1942–1996), Canadian ice hockey goaltender
• William Crozier, one of several people, including:
  • William Crozier (artillerist) (1855–1942), American artillerist and inventor
  • William Crozier (cricketer) (1873–1916), Irish cricketer
  • William Crozier (Irish artist), (born 1930), Irish-Scots artist
  • William Crozier (Scottish artist) (1893–1930), Scottish landscape painter
  • William Percival Crozier (1879–1944), British journalist