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noun
The Pope.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Catholicism, Christianity, Roman-Catholicism
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noun
The Holy Ghost.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
Topics: Christianity, lifestyle, religion, theology
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noun
Any bishop.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Christianity
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of Vicar of Christ, a title variously granted to the Holy Ghost and to the bishop of Rome.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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noun
the head of the Roman Catholic Church
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pope, Catholic Pope, Roman Catholic Pope, pontiff, Holy Father, Bishop of Rome
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Broader terms: spiritual leader, Catholic
Narrower terms: antipope, Alexander VI, Pope Alexander VI, Borgia, Rodrigo Borgia, Benedict XIV, Prospero Lambertini, Benedict XV, Giacomo della Chiesa, Boniface VIII, Benedetto Caetani, Calixtus II, Guy of Burgundy, Calixtus III, Alfonso Borgia, Clement VII, Giulio de' Medici, Clement XI, Giovanni Francesco Albani, Clement XIV, Lorenzo Ganganelli, Gregory, Gregory I, Saint Gregory I, St. Gregory I, Gregory the Great, Gregory VII, Hildebrand, Gregory XII, Angelo Correr, Gregory XIII, Ugo Buoncompagni, Gregory XVI, Bartolomeo Alberto Capillari, Innocent III, Lotario di Segni, Innocent VIII, Giovanni Battista Cibo, Innocent XI, Benedetto Odescalchi, Innocent XII, Antonio Pignatelli, John XXIII, Angelo Guiseppe Roncalli, John Paul I, Albino Luciano, John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla, Leo I, St. Leo I, Leo the Great, Leo III, Leo IX, Bruno, Bruno of Toul, Leo X, Giovanni de'Medici, Leo XIII, Gioacchino Pecci, Giovanni Vincenzo Pecci, Martin V, Oddone Colonna, Nicholas V, Tomasso Parentucelli, Paul III, Alessandro Farnese, Paul VI, Giovanni Battista Montini, Pius II, Aeneas Silvius, Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Pius V, Antonio Ghislieri, Pius VI, Giovanni Angelo Braschi, Giannangelo Braschi, Pius VII, Barnaba Chiaramonti, Luigi Barnaba Gregorio Chiaramonti, Pius IX, Giovanni Mastai-Ferretti, Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, Pius X, Giuseppe Sarto, Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, Pius XI, Achille Ratti, Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli, Sixtus IV, Francesco della Rovere, Sylvester II, Gerbert, Urban II, Odo, Odo of Lagery, Otho, Otho of Lagery, Urban V, Guillaume de Grimoard, Urban VI, Bartolomeo Prignano, Urban VIII, Maffeo Barberini
History
Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin vicārius Christī.
From the Latin vicarius Christi.
