The College of Pontiffs (Latin: Collegium Pontificum; see collegium) was a body of the ancient Roman state whose members were the highest-ranking priests...

the colleges of priests of the Roman religion, the College of Pontiffs. The term pontiff was later applied to any high or chief priest and, in Roman...

The pontifex maximus (Latin for "supreme pontiff") was the chief high priest of the College of Pontiffs (Collegium Pontificum) in ancient Rome. This was...

abbreviated as "Pont. Max" or "P.M." The office of Pontifex Maximus, or head of the College of Pontiffs, was held by Julius Caesar and thereafter, by the...

Maximus (disambiguation) Pontifex maximus, the highest priest of the College of Pontiffs in ancient Rome Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus, magister equitum...

deities were kept by the College of Pontiffs to assure that the correct names were invoked for public prayers. The books of the Pontiffs are lost, known only...

ancient Roman religion, the indigitamenta were lists of deities kept by the College of Pontiffs to assure that the correct divine names were invoked for...

decrees and official proceedings of the College of Pontiffs. Priestly literature was one of the earliest written forms of Latin prose, and included rosters...

personality in ancient Rome College of Pontiffs, the highest-ranking collection of priests of the state religion a Latinized form of the Ancient Greek term...

and the full moon respectively. To a late date, the College of Pontiffs formally proclaimed each of these days on the Capitoline Hill and Roman dating...

groups by the number of deities followers venerate. They would have considered the priestly colleges (such as the College of Pontiffs or Epulones) and cult...

of Pontiffs, a body of the ancient Roman state College of War, a state institution of the Russian Empire in charge of military affairs War College (Sweden)...

Elagabalus was inducted into the colleges of all the Roman priesthoods, including the College of Pontiffs, of which he was named pontifex maximus. Elagabalus...

the Emperor was Pontifex Maximus, the high priest of the College of Pontiffs (Collegium Pontificum) of all recognized religions in ancient Rome. To put...

existing temple in the name of both gods. The College of Pontiffs refused to allow this, so Marcellus restored the temple of Honos, and built a second,...

Commodus entered the College of Pontiffs, the starting point of a career in public life. In April 175, Avidius Cassius, Governor of Syria, declared himself emperor...

a list of patricians submitted by the College of Pontiffs. A further requirement was that he be born from parents married through the ritual of confarreatio...

reign of Aurelian, a new college of pontiffs for Sol was established. There is some debate over the significance of the date December 21 for the cult of Sol...

maximus was the chief priest of the ancient Roman religion, and head of the Collegium Pontificum ("College of Pontiffs"). According to legend, the first...

a member of the college of pontiffs and a curule aedile. Augustus fell dangerously ill in 23 BC and did not expect to recover. The model of imperial succession...

required introduction in the Roman Senate, reference of the petition to the College of Pontiffs, and then proposal to the Popular Assembly for final approval...

religious colleges (quattuor amplissima collegia) of Roman priests, in descending order of importance: Pontifices (the College of Pontiffs), headed by...

literature was one of the earliest written forms of Latin prose. The books (libri) and commentaries (commentarii) of the College of Pontiffs and of the augurs...

the creation of a worship cult. Augustus became pontifex maximus (the chief priest of the College of Pontiffs) in 12 BC, after the death of the former triumvir...

the College of Pontiffs and at times of the Fratres Arvales. It was burned and restored in 148 BC and again in 36 BC, eight years after the death of Julius...

from a recently broken marriage. Octavian gains permission from the College of Pontiffs to wed her while she is still pregnant from another husband. Three...

to be pontiffs, pontiff meaning "bridge builder" (pons + facere). The most common interpretation is that pontiffs are symbolically the builders of the bridge...

important were the College of Pontiffs and the college of augurs; the fourth was the quindecimviri sacris faciundis. The third college was the epulones;...

Vestals and was a member of the College of Pontiffs. The chief Vestal was probably the most influential and independent of Rome's high priestesses, committed...

upon being elected a pontiff in the College of Pontiffs. It was Caesar who had nominated Octavius for this position, the first of many to come from Caesar...