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Pope

Pope, the sovereign pontiff, or supreme head of the Romish church.  The appellation of pope was anciently given to all Christian bishops; but about the latter end of the eleventh century, in the pontificate of Gregory VII, it was usurped by the bishop of Rome, whose peculiar title it has ever since continued.

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