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pope

  [pohp]
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–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.
a. the Orthodox patriarch of Alexandria.
b. (in certain churches) a parish priest.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE pāpa < LL: bishop, pope < LGk pápas bishop, priest, var. of páppas father; see papa

Related forms:
popeless, adjective
popelike, adjective
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pope

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.)

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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Word Origin & History

Pope 
O.E. papa, from M.L. papa "bishop, pope" (in classical L., "tutor"), from Gk. papas "patriarch, bishop," originally "father." Applied to bishops of Asia Minor and taken as a title by the Bishop of Alexandria c.250. In Western Church, applied especially to the Bishop of Rome since the time of Leo the Great (440-461) and claimed exclusively by them from 1073. Popemobile, his car, is from 1979. Papal, papacy, later acquisitions in Eng., preserve the original vowel. Popery (1534) was a hostile coinage of the Reformation.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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