Meanings of supreme pontiff in English

The king made himself supreme pontiff of Atonu, and took precedence of the high priest.

Inside this literary Vatican, until his death in 1965, TS Eliot was the supreme pontiff.

As the supreme pontiff could not reside in a private house, he declared his abode to be State property.

The other priests, though his brothers or his sons, are officially subordinate to him, as bishops to the supreme pontiff.

Which holy death was signified unto the foresaid supreme pontiff, under the hand of a public notary, in the following words:

His paramount obligations as an archbishop were, according to all the ideas of his age, to the supreme pontiff of Christendom.

Inducted to serve two-year renewable enlistments, recruits swear to lay down their life, if necessary, in defense of the supreme pontiff.

To these accumulated honors, the policy of Augustus soon added the splendid as well as important dignities of supreme pontiff, and of censor.

Pope Honorius, however, sent letters to the king, raising the interdict, and thereupon Bernard turned his fearless indignation upon the supreme pontiff himself.

But when queried about this, Steve Jobs -then, as later, the supreme pontiff of the Church of Apple -was adamant and unrepentant.

He found the patronage of the Church the mere desecrated spoil and merchandise of princes: he reduced it within the dominion of the supreme pontiff.

The unity of the Apostolic supreme pontiff; for neither Peter nor Paul, James nor John pretended to be the governor of the household of faith.

Rite and Reason: Pope Benedict will be Supreme Pontiff a year on Wednesday.

He may not be the Supreme Pontiff, but Gaja is a big name in Piedmont.

He denies that the supreme Pontiff has the unlimited power of binding and loosingclaimed for him.

Standing before him, the senior Deacon Cardinal said, "Do you accept your canonical election as Supreme Pontiff?"