pontifex in English

noun
1
(in ancient Rome) a member of the principal college of priests.
All this may look democratic, but in 300 he opposed the admission of plebeians to the two main priestly colleges ( pontifices and augures) and on two occasions attempted to secure the election of an all-patrician college.

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1. He was pontifex maximus, chief priest of Roman state religion.

2. The title "Pontifex Avenione / Pontife d'Avigon" (bridge builder of Avignon) appears not to have been mentioned prior to 1665.

3. Blessed #CarlosAcutis, a young man of great piety (and zest for life) who died at 15, was Beatified today by @Pontifex

4. Welcoming Constantine in Rome, a pagan Senate declared him chief Augustus and Pontifex Maximus, that is, high priest of the pagan religion of the empire.

5. From the words of the Pontifical we infer that the high altar must stand free on all sides (Pontifex circuit septies tabulam altaris), but the back part of smaller Altars may be built against the wall.

6. Apostolica Sollicitudo dispone: <<Summus Pontifex, si ei placuerit, Auget numerum membrorum Synodi Episcoporum, addendo sive Episcopos, sive religiosos sodales qui partes agunt Institutorum Religiosorum, sive denique ecclesiasticos viros peritos, usque ad quindecim centesimas partes universi numeri membrorum, de quibus in nn.