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Nuncio :: Nuncio (n.) The permanent official representative of the pope at a foreign court or seat of government. Distinguished from a legate a latere, whose mission is temporary in its nature, or for some special purpose. Nuncios are of higher rank than internuncios..

Popedom :: Popedom (n.) The jurisdiction of the pope.

Pontificate :: Pontificate (n.) The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope..

Legate :: Legate (n.) An ecclesiastic representing the pope and invested with the authority of the Holy See.

Tenth :: Tenth (n.) The tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but afterward transferred to the crown. It now forms a part of the fund called Queen Anne's Bounty..

Cathedral :: Cathedral (a.) Emanating from the chair of office, as of a pope or bishop; official; authoritative..

Internuncio :: Internuncio (n.) A representative, or charge d'affaires, of the pope at a foreign court or seat of government, ranking next below a nuncio..

Vatican :: Vatican (n.) A magnificent assemblage of buildings at Rome, near the church of St. Peter, including the pope's palace, a museum, a library, a famous chapel, etc..

Papist :: Papist (n.) A Roman catholic; one who adheres to the Church of Rome and the authority of the pope; -- an offensive designation applied to Roman Catholics by their opponents.

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) An office of the papal court which examines cases of conscience, confession, absolution from vows, etc., and delivers decisions, dispensations, etc. Its chief is a cardinal, called the Grand Penitentiary, appointed by the pope..

Cardinal :: Cardinal (a.) One of the ecclesiastical princes who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college..

Gonfanon :: Gonfanon (n.) The ensign or standard in use by certain princes or states, such as the mediaeval republics of Italy, and in more recent times by the pope..

Mozzetta :: Mozzetta (n.) A cape, with a small hood; -- worn by the pope and other dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church..

Bull :: Bull (v. i.) A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility..

Datary :: Datary (n.) An officer in the pope's court, having charge of the Dataria..

Antipope :: Antipope (n.) One who is elected, or claims to be, pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at Avignon during the Great Schism..

Protopapas :: Protopapas (n.) A protopope.

Pontific :: Pontific (a.) Of or pertaining to the pope; papal.

Guelf :: Guelf (n.) One of a faction in Germany and Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which supported the House of Guelph and the pope, and opposed the Ghibellines, or faction of the German emperors..

Papal :: Papal (a.) Of or pertaining to the pope of Rome; proceeding from the pope; ordered or pronounced by the pope; as, papal jurisdiction; a papal edict; the papal benediction..

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