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

Crassus accordingly proceeded to Asia, although in doing so he violated the rule which forbade the pontifex maximus to leave Italy.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various

D. N. J. C. in jam dictâ basilicâ B. Petri apostoli omnes interum congregati sunt, et tunc yenerabilis almificus pontifex xnanibus suis propriis pretiosissimâ coronâ coronavit eum.

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

And the press, bad or good, is the high pontifex of our times; more than any other social agency whatever, the press ought, at least, to be manly, elevated, indomitable, vigilant and straight-forward.

From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count