pontifex

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The new pontifex maximus has much work ahead of him to wrangle the faithful into unity.

From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2025

If he sometimes sounds like a pontifex maximus, he generally talks neither down nor with false humility.

From Time Magazine Archive

He held the title of pontifex maximus and consequently was at the head of the official pagan worship.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

Do I err, saying this? or did that most illustrious man, Publius Scipio, pontifex maximus, when in no magisterial office, take off Tiberius Gracchus, for merely disturbing the established order of the state?

From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 by Herbert, Henry William

The popular assembly remitted the fine, but Flaccus was ordered to obey the pontifex maximus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various