• Pontiff (redirect from Pontifices)
    priests in ancient Rome, the most illustrious of which was that of the pontifices. The others were those of the augures, the quindecimviri sacris faciundis...
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    with evidence that many pontifices maximi were prominent members of society who lived normal lives. The number of Pontifices, elected by co-optatio (i...
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  • October 1917 Consueverunt Romani Pontifices summary in English, EWTN Vatican website: Consueverunt Romani Pontifices November 2000 Pope Pius V, Consueverunt...
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    regulations of former decrees are embodied in Romanos Pontifices. Meehan, Andrew. "Constitutio Romanos Pontifices." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 13. New York:...
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    religion. The college consisted of the pontifex maximus and the other pontifices, the rex sacrorum, the fifteen flamens, and the Vestals. The College of...
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  • Maria Fernanda Pontífice de Jesus Bonfim (born 1955) is a São Toméan academic and politician. She was one of the first group of female members of the...
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    appointed by his friend, Numa Pompilius, the second King of Rome. No other Pontifices Maximi are mentioned in surviving sources until the overthrow of the Roman...
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    Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice ("For Church and Pope" in Latin) is a decoration of the Holy See. It is currently conferred for distinguished service to the...
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    Augustus (category Pontifices)
    Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (Latin: Octavianus), was the founder of...
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    Geographers Institutions Laws Legacy Legions Magistri equitum Nomina Pontifices maximi Praetors Quaestors Tribunes Roman–Iranian relations External wars...
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  • obvious, and actual "bridge-builder": The priests, called Pontifices.... have the name of Pontifices from potens, powerful because they attend the service...
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  • The Bridge-Building Brotherhood (Latin: Fratres Pontifices; French: Frères Pontifes) is said to have been a religious association active during the 12th...
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  • Roman year to stay roughly aligned to a tropical year. However, since the pontifices were often politicians, and because a Roman magistrate's term of office...
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  • brought the Bacchanalia under control of the Senate, and thus of the Roman pontifices. The existing cult chapters and colleges were dismantled. Congregations...
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  • whence it is also called Angeronalia. On the day of this festival the pontifices performed sacrifices in the temple of Voluptia, or the goddess of joy...
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    festivals ludi funerary practices imperial cult mystery religions Priesthoods Pontifices Augures Vestales Flamines Fetiales Epulones Fratres Arvales Deities Dii...
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    ranks of Roman society,: 504–505  they were now pontifices and members of the new college of pontifices instituted by Aurelian. Every pontifex of Sol was...
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    Balbinus. Unlike the situation in 161, both emperors were elected as pontifices maximi, chief priests of the official cults. According to Edward Gibbon...
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  • classical times the ceremony consisted in a procession headed by the pontifices, which bore the sacred rain-stone from its resting-place by the Porta...
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    on the Priesthoods of ancient Rome Flamen (AD 250–260) Major colleges Pontifices Augures Vestales Flamines Septemviri epulonum Quindecimviri sacris faciundis...
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    Julius Caesar (category Pontifices maximi of the Roman Republic)
    forces. While absent from Rome, in 73 BC, Caesar was co-opted into the pontifices in place of his deceased relative Gaius Aurelius Cotta. The promotion...
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