Papal Synonyms

pāpəl
Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. pontifical
  2. apostolic
  3. papistic
  4. emanating from the Pope or the Vatican
  5. papist
  6. papistical
  7. popish
  8. Romanistic
  9. romish
  10. apostolical

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Papal Sentence Examples

  • He must preserve the papal conquests which he had inherited from Alexander VI.

  • That Leo did not do more to check the tendency toward heresy and schism in Germany and Scandinavia is to be partially explained by the political complications of the time, and by his own preoccupation with schemes of papal and Medicean aggrandizement in Italy.

  • The idea, however, did not spread until, in 1261, Jacob Pantaleon, archdeacon of Liege, ascended the papal throne as Urban IV.

  • Elevated to the papacy, on the 16th of May 1605, his extreme conception of papal prerogative,.

  • He failed to recognize the pressing need of reform within the church and the tremendous dangers which threatened the papal monarchy; and he unpardonably neglected the spiritual needs of the time.

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