Bisschopsstaf

Crosier - a staff resembling a shepherd's crook carried by bishops and abbots as a symbol of office ceremonial staff in Christianity. Article “Bisschopsstaf” in Dutch Wikipedia has 47.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 9 sections.

This article has the best quality in Indonesian Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Bisschopsstaf”, its content was written by 58 registered users of Dutch Wikipedia and edited by 894 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 369 times in Dutch Wikipedia and cited 4521 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Dutch): #2640 in February 2014
• Global: #11889 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Dutch): #32006 in November 2008
• Global: #34476 in March 2015

There are 39 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Indonesian (id) Tongkat pastoral		49.8004
2	English (en) Crozier		47.9081
3	Dutch (nl) Bisschopsstaf		47.16
4	German (de) Krummstab		41.584
5	Catalan (ca) Bàcul pastoral		40.0981
6	Ukrainian (uk) Патериця		38.889
7	Hungarian (hu) Pásztorbot		34.0788
8	Finnish (fi) Piispansauva		31.8983
9	Romanian (ro) Pateriță		30.6819
10	Turkish (tr) Crosier		28.7743

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Bisschopsstaf" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Crozier		1 429 256
2	Spanish (es) Báculo pastoral		420 208
3	German (de) Krummstab		418 258
4	Polish (pl) Pastorał		345 715
5	Italian (it) Pastorale (insegna liturgica)		214 752
6	French (fr) Crosse épiscopale		190 950
7	Portuguese (pt) Báculo		153 030
8	Russian (ru) Церковный посох		129 480
9	Japanese (ja) 司教杖		77 181
10	Swedish (sv) Kräkla		62 191

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Bisschopsstaf" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Crozier		7 441
2	German (de) Krummstab		1 138
3	French (fr) Crosse épiscopale		875
4	Polish (pl) Pastorał		768
5	Italian (it) Pastorale (insegna liturgica)		688
6	Spanish (es) Báculo pastoral		606
7	Russian (ru) Церковный посох		569
8	Portuguese (pt) Báculo		391
9	Japanese (ja) 司教杖		277
10	Swedish (sv) Kräkla		166

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Bisschopsstaf" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Crozier		202
2	German (de) Krummstab		159
3	Italian (it) Pastorale (insegna liturgica)		65
4	Dutch (nl) Bisschopsstaf		58
5	French (fr) Crosse épiscopale		53
6	Polish (pl) Pastorał		37
7	Russian (ru) Церковный посох		30
8	Norwegian (no) Bispestav		27
9	Spanish (es) Báculo pastoral		24
10	Vietnamese (vi) Gậy mục tử		20

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Bisschopsstaf" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Krummstab		1
2	English (en) Crozier		1
3	Estonian (et) Piiskopisau		1
4	Hungarian (hu) Pásztorbot		1
5	Indonesian (id) Tongkat pastoral		1
6	Swedish (sv) Kräkla		1
7	Arabic (ar) صولجان الأسقف		0
8	Belarusian (be) Пастарал		0
9	Catalan (ca) Bàcul pastoral		0
10	Czech (cs) Biskupská berla		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Bisschopsstaf" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	German (de) Krummstab		872
2	English (en) Crozier		741
3	French (fr) Crosse épiscopale		559
4	Polish (pl) Pastorał		372
5	Dutch (nl) Bisschopsstaf		369
6	Italian (it) Pastorale (insegna liturgica)		366
7	Spanish (es) Báculo pastoral		217
8	Portuguese (pt) Báculo		149
9	Catalan (ca) Bàcul pastoral		123
10	Russian (ru) Церковный посох		81

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic صولجان الأسقف
be	Belarusian Пастарал
ca	Catalan Bàcul pastoral
cs	Czech Biskupská berla
da	Danish Bispestav
de	German Krummstab
el	Greek Ποιμαντορική ράβδος
en	English Crozier
eo	Esperanto Episkopa bastono
es	Spanish Báculo pastoral
et	Estonian Piiskopisau
eu	Basque Makulu (liturgia)
fa	Persian عصای شبانی
fi	Finnish Piispansauva
fr	French Crosse épiscopale
he	Hebrew מטה כמורה
hr	Croatian Biskupski štap
hu	Hungarian Pásztorbot
hy	Armenian Ասա
id	Indonesian Tongkat pastoral
it	Italian Pastorale (insegna liturgica)
ja	Japanese 司教杖
ka	Georgian კვერთხი
ko	Korean 주교 지팡이
nl	Dutch Bisschopsstaf
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Bispestav
no	Norwegian Bispestav
pl	Polish Pastorał
pt	Portuguese Báculo
ro	Romanian Pateriță
ru	Russian Церковный посох
simple	Simple English Crosier
sk	Slovak Biskupská berla
sl	Slovenian Škofovska palica
sr	Serbian Жезал
sv	Swedish Kräkla
tr	Turkish Crosier
uk	Ukrainian Патериця
vi	Vietnamese Gậy mục tử

Best Rank

Dutch: #32006 11.2008

Global: #34476 03.2015

Best Rank

Dutch: #2640 02.2014

Global: #11889 12.2002

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