pontifex maximus
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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
The point for us is simply the continued activity of the pontifex maximus in this work, which must have become almost entirely secular in character.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde
The second part, at least, was addressed to Caesar as pontifex maximus.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by Middleton, George
Again, the master of ceremonies at papal mass prompts the pontiff at each stage of the function as did his predecessors for Antoninus Pius or Marcus Aurelius when they too officiated as pontifex maximus.
From Rome by Malleson, Hope
