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

And yet the Roman Emperor bore the title of pontifex maximus!

From Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Bolanden, Conrad von

This assembly also met, under the name of the comitia calata and under the presidency of the pontifex maximus, for certain religious acts.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various

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