pontifex maximus

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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 simply retained all the great offices of State, and ruled, not so much by a new title, as he did as consul, tribune, censor, pontifex maximus, and chief of the Senate.

From Ancient States and Empires by Lord, John

These members begin to be found holding also civil magistracies, and the pontifex maximus was often a consul of the year.

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

There is no question but that he left successors to the office of pontifex maximus, and that they continued the native religious ceremonies.

From Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History by Brinton, Daniel Garrison