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papacy

[pay-puh-see] / ˈpeɪ pə si /
NOUN
Apostolic See
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Now, 18 months into his papacy, Leo is returning to his adopted homeland, the third and final leg of his first trip to Latin America, the world’s largest Catholic stronghold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

Pope Leo's trip to Argentina has been described as a homage to Francis, who did not return to his homeland during his own papacy.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

"This will be the most closely watched trip of Leo's papacy to date," Christopher White of Georgetown University in Washington and author of a book on Pope Leo, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

Young traders are also getting rich betting on things like Rotten Tomatoes scores and the papacy.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

At first the papacy was blind to the danger.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

He became an authority on the papacies of five popes - One of his most notable assignments was the assassination attempt on John Paul II in 1981.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

As a child, he knew the names of all the popes and the dates of their papacies, as well as the names and pertinent dates of England’s kings and queens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

There’s no satisfactory answer to that, although it’s fair to say that the papacies of Francis and Leo represent the first serious efforts to reckon with those more recent crimes.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026

For years, dating back three papacies, the Vatican has sought to unify the two communities.

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2018

Byzantine empires, Spanish Armadas, triple-crowned papacies, Russian despotisms, this is the way of them, and will be to the end of the world.

From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley


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