pontificate

But of course, there is the now fading memory of the election that followed the long pontificate of Pius XII.

Benedict may well want to cut short the time available for the cardinals to politick, posture, and pontificate, as it were.

The deficit hawks pontificate on camera while in the wings the tradesmen of the Congress fill districts with holiday cheer.

The pope of Rome sent him a full set of all the medals struck during his pontificate.

Cossa kept his word never to appeal against the sentence which stripped him of the pontificate.

His cosmography, like all of them, began with the creation and came down to the pontificate of Martin V who was then Pope.

Luther attacked not the abuses of the Roman pontificate, but the pontificate itself.

Ferdinando de Medici, then a cardinal, had just failed in his candidacy for the pontificate (outwitted by that fox Montalto).