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pope

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[ pohp ]

noun

  1. (often initial capital letter) the bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church.
  2. (in the early Christian church) a bishop.
  3. a person considered as having or assuming authority or a position similar to that of the Roman Catholic pope.
  4. the title of the Coptic patriarch of Alexandria.
  5. Eastern Church.
    1. the Orthodox patriarch of Alexandria.
    2. (in certain churches) a parish priest.


Pope

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[ pohp ]

noun

  1. Alexander, 1688–1744, English poet.
  2. John, 1822–92, Union general in the U.S. Civil War.
  3. John Russell, 1874–1937, U.S. architect.

ʴDZé

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[ poh-pey ]

noun

  1. died 1690?, Pueblo medicine man: led rebellion against the Spanish 1680.

Pope

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/ əʊ /

noun

  1. PopeAlexander16881744MEnglishWRITING: poetWRITING: satirist Alexander. 1688–1744, English poet, regarded as the most brilliant satirist of the Augustan period, esp with his Imitations of Horace (1733–38). His technical virtuosity is most evident in The Rape of the Lock (1712–14). Other works include The Dunciad (1728; 1742), the Moral Essays (1731–35), and An Essay on Man (1733–34)
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pope

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/ əʊ /

noun

  1. often capital the bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church papal
  2. Eastern Orthodox Church
    1. a title sometimes given to a parish priest
    2. a title sometimes given to the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Alexandria
  3. a person assuming or having a status or authority resembling that of a pope
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pope

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/ əʊ /

noun

  1. another name for ruffe
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pope

  1. The head of the Roman Catholic Church . The pope is believed by his church to be the successor to the Apostle Peter . He is bishop of Rome and lives in a tiny nation within Rome called the Vatican . Catholics believe that when the pope speaks officially on matters of faith and morals, he speaks infallibly ( see papal infallibility ). ( See also John XXIII and John Paul II .)
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of pope1

before 900; Middle English; Old English < Late Latin: bishop, pope < Late Greek á貹 bishop, priest, variant of á貹 father; papa
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of pope1

Old English papa, from Church Latin: bishop, esp of Rome, from Late Greek papas father-in-God, from Greek pappas father
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Instead, the pope has lived and preached what Jesus commanded his followers to do in the Sermon on the Mount, which to the right might as well be the Communist Manifesto nowadays.

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He writes of a colleague who tried to beg out of covering a visit from the pope by inventing some conflicting family vacation plans.

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When asked if he thought the pope could be discharged in time for Easter which falls on 20 April, the Cardinal said he did not know.

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Mr Hare said they were "far more worried" about other controversial artworks in the exhibition - a statue of a meteor-struck pope, union flags the public walked on and a statue of a praying Adolf Hitler.

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The Papal suite is reserved for popes, but other patients are treated on the same floor.

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