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:
Places
- Crozier (crater), a lunar crater
- Crozier, Virginia, USA, an unincorporated community
- Crozier, Arizona, USA, a census-designated place
- Cape Crozier, the most easterly point of Ross Island in Antarctica
- Crozier Island, off the northwest coast of Greenland
Other uses
- Crozier (surname)
- Crosiers, general name for several similar Roman Catholic orders
- Crozier (mycology), an anatomical feature of many fungi in the phylum Ascomycota
- Crozier, another name for fiddlehead fern, a furled frond of a young fern
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