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

Sed compescuit tale consilium pontifex sperans conversionem principis.

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

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

Caesar was at the time, let us note, the head of the Roman religion, pontifex 306maximus.

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