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

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

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

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

Under the republic and emperors the pontifex maximus was the supreme religious dignitary.

From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Westbrook, Richard B.