popedom

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An American so intrepid as to make himself eligible for both offices would be unlikely to “give up his popedom for our presidency.”

From Slate • May 9, 2025

At the same time this pamphlet of Luther was a literary vindication of the Reformation and Protestantism; here, said he, and not in the popedom, was the true, ancient, and original Christian Church.

From Life of Luther by Koestlin, Julius

The state of the Church, its affairs and development, are the subject-matter of all these writings, but not one of them reveals the popedom of Peter.

From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore)

Eugenius IV, from Venice, originally called Gabriel Condolmero, was raised to the popedom in 1431.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various

"Are you the man who is to overturn the popedom?" said a soldier, accosting him rather contemptuously at a halting-place; "how will you accomplish that?"

From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle