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

Illico sanctissimus pontifex unxit oleo sancto Carolum, &c.—

From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois

At the age of thirty-seven he was elected pontifex maximus over two3038 powerful competitors.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Warner, Charles Dudley

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