pope

Meaning

1. An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
2. An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
3. An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
4. An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
5. (obsolete) An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
6. An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
7. An honorary title of the Coptic bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his church.
8. An honorary title of the Orthodox bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his autocephalous church.
9. (obsolete) Any bishop of the early Christian church.
10. The ruffe, a small Eurasian freshwater fish (Gymnocephalus cernua); others of its genus.
11. The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica).
12. The painted bunting (Passerina ciris).
13. The red-cowled cardinal (Paroaria dominicana).

pontiff

Catholic Pope

Roman Catholic Pope

Supreme Pontiff

Pontiff

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/pəʊp/

From Middle English pope, popa, from Old English pāpa, from Vulgar Latin papa (title for priests and bishops, esp. and by 8th c. only the bishop of Rome), from early Byzantine Greek παπᾶς (papâs, title for priests and bishops, especially by 3rd c. the bishop of Alexandria), from late Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, title for priests and bishops, in the sense of spiritual father), from πάππας (páppas, “papa, daddy”).

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