pope

Etymology 1
From, , from , from , from early , from late , from.

Noun

 * 1)  An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
 * 2) * ante 950''', translating 's ' (Tanner), iv. i. 252
 * Þa wæs in þa tid Uitalius papa þæs apostolican seðles aldorbiscop.
 * 1) * 1959 August 19,, letter in Habit of Being (1980), 347
 * The Pope is not going to issue a bull condemning the Spanish Church's support of France and destroy the Church's right to exist in Spain.
 * 1) * 2007 May 5, Ted Koppel, Wait, Wait... Don’t tell me!, National Public Radio
 * I really did want to interview the pope. Any pope. I'm not particular.
 * 1)  Any similarly absolute and 'infallible' authority.
 * 2) * 1893 January 19, Nation (N.Y.), 46/3
 * Burne-Jones... accepted him [Dante Gabriel Rossetti] as the infallible Pope of Art.
 * 1) * 1972 June 2, Science, 966/2
 * Both [discoveries] were rejected offhand by the popes of the field.
 * 1)  Any similar head of a religion.
 * 2) * c. 1400,, Travels (Titus C.xvi, 1919), 205
 * In þat yle dwelleth the Pope of hire lawe, þat þei clepen lobassy.
 * 1) * 2005 April 6, Kansas City Star, b7
 * Although Islam has no formal hierarchy of clergy, Tantawy [Egypt's grand imam] often is called the Muslim pope.
 * 1)  A theocrat, a priest-king, including (at first especially) over the imaginary land of  or (now) in figurative and alliterative uses.
 * 2) * ante 1500,, Travels (Rawl., 1953), 103
 * Eche day there etyn in his court xii erchebeshopis and xx bishopis, and the patriak of Seynt Thomays is as here pope.
 * 1) * 1993 December, Vanity Fair (N.Y.), 62/1
 * Ramone, known as ‘the Pope of Pop’ is one of the top record producer-engineers in the world.
 * 1)  An effigy of the pope traditionally burnt in Britain on Guy Fawkes' Day and (occasionally) at other times.
 * 2)  Pope Day, the present Guy Fawkes Day.
 * 3)  An honorary title of the Coptic bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his church.
 * 4)  An honorary title of the Orthodox bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his autocephalous church.
 * 5)  Any bishop of the early Christian church.
 * 6) * 1563, 2nd Tome Homelyes, sig. Hh.i
 * All notable Bishops were then called popes.
 * 1)  The ruffe, a small Eurasian freshwater fish ; others of its genus.
 * 2)  The Atlantic puffin.
 * 3)  The painted bunting.
 * 4)  The.
 * 1) * 1563, 2nd Tome Homelyes, sig. Hh.i
 * All notable Bishops were then called popes.
 * 1)  The ruffe, a small Eurasian freshwater fish ; others of its genus.
 * 2)  The Atlantic puffin.
 * 3)  The painted bunting.
 * 4)  The.
 * 1)  The Atlantic puffin.
 * 2)  The painted bunting.
 * 3)  The.
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Usage notes
In English usage, the term is originally and generally taken to refer to the bishop of Rome, although the Egyptian title is actually older. Within the Coptic Church, the Patriarch of Alexandria is normally styled Pope ~; within the Eastern Orthodox Church, their distinct Patriarch of Alexandria is formally titled "Pope of Alexandria", but usually referred to as such only in the liturgy and official documents.

Synonyms

 * Bishop of Rome, Patriarch of Rome, Vicar of Christ
 * Bishop of Alexandria, Patriarch of Alexandria
 * Orthodox Bishop of Alexandria
 * See Guy Fawkes Day.
 * See their respective entries.

Coordinate terms

 * papal
 * papacy
 * antipope
 * popess, papess
 * papist

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: بَابَا, حَبْر أَعْظَم,
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:, Roma papası
 * Bavarian: Papst
 * Belarusian: па́па ры́мскі, па́па
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:, па́па Ри́мски
 * Burmese: ပုပ်ရဟန်းမင်းကြီး
 * Catalan: Papa
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 教皇, 教宗
 * Hakka: 教宗
 * Hokkien: 教皇,
 * Mandarin:, , 羅馬教宗
 * Classical Nahuatl: huēyi teōpixcātlahtoāni
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: pávi
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Middle French: pappe
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:, რომის პაპი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole: pap
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: pápa
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kazakh: Рим папасы,
 * Khmer: សម្ដេចប៉ាប
 * Korean:, , ^로마 교황
 * Kyrgyz: папа, Рим папасы
 * Lao: ສັນຕະປາປາ
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: pāvests
 * Limburgish:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: папа
 * Malay:
 * Manx: paab
 * Maori: popi
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: пап, Ромын пап
 * Norman: pape
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: pave
 * Old English: pāpa
 * Old Irish: pápa
 * Old Norse: páfi
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch:, Pop
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romani:
 * Welsh Romani: 'måro båro rašaj
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: pàp
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: па̑па
 * Roman:
 * Shan: ၸဝ်ႈမုၼ်ပူပ်ႉ, မုၼ်ၸဝ်ႈပူပ်ႉ
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian: bamž
 * Sotho: mopapa
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: papa, Santo Papa
 * Tajik: папаи Рим, папа, поп
 * Tatar: Рим папасы
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: papa, Rim papasy
 * Ukrainian: па́па ри́мський, па́па
 * Urdu: پوپ
 * Uzbek: Rim papasi, ,
 * Vietnamese:, giáo hoàng ở La Mã
 * Volapük:, hipapal , jipapal ,
 * Welsh: pab
 * Yiddish: פּויפּס, פּויפּסט
 * Yup'ik: allgiliyaq

Verb

 * 1)  To act as or like a pope.
 * 2) * 1537, T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman, Life & Lett. Cromwell (1902), II. 89
 * "en"

- Paul popith Jolyly, that woll desire the worlde to pray for the kinges apeyrement.


 * 1) * 1966 February, Duckett's Reg., 14/2
 * "en"
 * "en"

- He would pope it in his own way, God guiding him.


 * 1) * 1989 September 24, Los Angeles Times, iii. 22/1
 * "en"

- I saw where the Pope poped and where the pigeons flocked. Pretty interesting if you're Catholic and like pigeons.


 * 1)  To convert to Roman Catholicism.
 * 2) * c. 1916, in 's Life R. Knox (1959), ii. i. 142
 * "en"

- I'm not going to ‘Pope’ until after the war (if I'm alive).


 * 1) * 1990 October 7, Sunday Telegraph, 26/5
 * "en"

- A prominent Anglican priest had, to use the term generally employed on these occasions, ‘Poped’—that is, left the Church of England in order to become a Roman Catholic.

Etymology 2
By analogy with.

Noun

 * 1)  Any mulled wine (traditionally including tokay) considered similar and superior to bishop.
 * 2) * 1976 January 15, Times (London), 12/8
 * Many of these hot drinks have clerical names—Bishop being a type of mulled port, Cardinal using claret, and Pope Champagne.
 * 1) * 1976 January 15, Times (London), 12/8
 * Many of these hot drinks have clerical names—Bishop being a type of mulled port, Cardinal using claret, and Pope Champagne.
 * Many of these hot drinks have clerical names—Bishop being a type of mulled port, Cardinal using claret, and Pope Champagne.

Etymology 3
From, from , from as above.

Noun

 * , a Russian Orthodox priest.
 * 1) * 1996 September 20, Daily Telegraph, 25/5
 * In the non-Roman rites diocesan priests are often referred to as popes.
 * 1) * 1996 September 20, Daily Telegraph, 25/5
 * In the non-Roman rites diocesan priests are often referred to as popes.

Translations

 * Arabic: بابا,
 * Belarusian: поп
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Macedonian: поп
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: по̏п
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: pop
 * Slovene: pop
 * Ukrainian: поп

Etymology 4
Of origin.

Noun

 * 1)  whippoorwill (, syn. ).
 * 2)  nighthawk.
 * 1)  nighthawk.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) doll

Etymology
and /.

Noun

 * 1) a priest of a Greek Orthodox church

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) The  (Roman Catholic bishop of Rome).
 * 2)  Another spiritual leader or head.

Noun

 * 1)   (a Russian Orthodox priest)

Noun

 * 1)   (a Russian Orthodox priest)