Thesaurus / pontificate
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In the wake of Francis’s surgery, Alberto Melloni, a church historian, argued that this pontificate has entered a concluding chapter, where he will have to make decisions about the final things he might want to prioritize.
POPE FRANCIS’S SURGERY ADDS URGENCY TO QUESTIONS ABOUT THE REMAINING YEARS OF HIS PAPACYCHICO HARLAN, STEFANO PITRELLIJULY 9, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe pope of Rome sent him a full set of all the medals struck during his pontificate.
HISTORIC FREDERICKSBURGJOHN T. GOOLRICKCossa kept his word never to appeal against the sentence which stripped him of the pontificate.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 15, SLICE 4VARIOUSHis cosmography, like all of them, began with the creation and came down to the pontificate of Martin V who was then Pope.
THE LIFE OF JOAN OF ARC, VOL. 1 AND 2 (OF 2)ANATOLE FRANCELuther attacked not the abuses of the Roman pontificate, but the pontificate itself.
HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY, VOL 2J. H. MERLE D'AUBIGNFerdinando de Medici, then a cardinal, had just failed in his candidacy for the pontificate (outwitted by that fox Montalto).
ROMANCE OF ROMAN VILLASELIZABETH W. (ELIZBETH WILLIAMS) CHAMPNEYDuring fifty years the pontificate remained in his family almost without interruption.
THE WORLDS GREATEST BOOKS, VOLUME XIII.VARIOUSIn the course of his pontificate, he had received two singular honours.
THE SONNETS, TRIUMPHS, AND OTHER POEMS OF PETRARCHPETRARCHRome held the pontificate of the dark ages—the royalty of the obscure; and France has been the pontiff of the ages of light.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 59, NO. 368, JUNE 1846VARIOUSHe sympathised with the projects of Adrian VI., and was a power during his brief pontificate.
A HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION (VOL. 2 OF 2)THOMAS M. LINDSAYWORDS RELATED TO PONTIFICATE
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