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 took the title of pontifex maximus, head sacrificial priest of the Roman dominion, the most ancient of all the titles that the emperors had enjoyed.

From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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

Caesar was at the time, let us note, the head of the Roman religion, pontifex 306maximus.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde