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Crozier Staff
A pastoral staff is the stylized staff of office carried by high-ranking Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican and some Lutheran prelates. The other typical insignia of most of these prelates, but not all, is the mitre.As a symbol of the office of governing a bishop has in Western Christianity, it is borne by bishops in their own dioceses as "shepherd of the flock of God", i.e., the community under his jurisdiction. .