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

This sphere was under the direction of a college of priests, at whose head stood the pontifex maximus.

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

Under the republic and emperors the pontifex maximus was the supreme religious dignitary.

From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Westbrook, Richard B.

Et videns summus pontifex quod secundum accusationes quas de eo fecerant fratres minores justitiam postularent, tradidit eis eum.

From The History of Freedom by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron