(n.) The office and dignity of the pope, or pontiff, of Rome; papal jurisdiction.
(n.) The popes, collectively; the succession of popes.
(n.) The Roman Catholic religion; -- commonly used by the opponents of the Roman Catholics in disparagement or in an opprobrious sense.
Example Sentences:
(1) The conservatives are unlikely to acquiesce without a fight, and Francis now risks criticism of his papacy up to the highest level, including the bishops – who have so far kept their counsel.
(2) Pope Francis embarks on one of the most delicate missions of his 18-month-old papacy on Friday, when he is expected to wrestle with the problems of Christian persecution in the Muslim world and tackle relations with Islam in a time of spreading jihadism during his visit to Turkey.
(3) This time, Francis is a popular pope who visits Brazil as a reformer in content as well as in form; one who proposes a new way of living the papacy.
(4) Photograph: Helen Maybanks Marlowe’s warring Catholic leaders were intended to amuse audiences in Protestant England, and it is suspicion of the papacy – as foreign, strange, potentially treacherous – that has made it such a profitable subject for fiction.
(5) Among the 266 holders of the papacy to date, the current incumbent is the first to take Francis, a flash of re-baptismal originality in a line of succession in which the Johns reach 23, there have been a dozen men called Pius and 13 took the name Innocent.
(6) On Wednesday, the pope told pilgrims in St Peter's Square that there had been moments in his papacy during which God "seemed to be sleeping" .
(7) The pope was elected with a mandate to shake up the church in Rome and help turn the page on an increasingly fraught and scandal-bedevilled papacy.
(8) The move, announced without warning, will take place on 28 February and leave the papacy vacant until a successor is chosen.
(9) Updated at 4.58pm GMT 4.37pm GMT The helicopter carrying Pope Benedict XVI aboard flies over St Peter's Square, on the final day of his papacy.
(10) John Pollard, a Cambridge historian, says in Money and the Rise of the Modern Papacy: "The papacy was now financially secure.
(11) Unthinkable in the preceding papacies of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, the pastoral needs of same-sex couples, along with those of children in such families, figured in the synod’s working document setting the agenda for this recent meeting.
(12) Federico Lombardi, a Vatican spokesman, said the pope had resigned not because of "difficulties in the papacy" or a specific illness but instead a progressive decline in his strength.
(13) Early on in Francis’s papacy, Chaput told the National Catholic Reporter that the right wing of the church “generally have not been really happy about his election, from what I’ve been able to read and to understand.
(14) Ten years into his papacy, Shenouda had famously fallen out with President Anwar Sadat ; in September 1981 he was summarily dethroned and banished to an ancient desert monastery.
(15) • As bells tolled, the Swiss Guards standing at attention in Castel Gandolfo shut the doors of the palazzo shortly after 8pm (local time), symbolically closing out the papacy.
(16) From the Vatican’s standpoint, another important aspect of the visit will be the opportunity to consolidate the papacy’s good relations with the ecumenical patriarch, Bartholomew I, the pre-eminent spiritual leader of the world’s 300 million Orthodox Christians.
(17) But they expressed surprise that the Holy See’s regulators had not yet made full inspections of either the Vatican ‘bank’ or the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA), the department that manages the papacy’s assets.
(18) The Guardian asked the Vatican's representative in London, the papal nuncio, archbishop Antonio Mennini, why the papacy continued with such secrecy over the identity of its property investments in London.
(19) Boston cardinal Seán Patrick O’Malley, once a contender for the papacy himself and a close ally of Francis, had been asked to recommend suggested discussion topics for the Vatican to raise with Obama.
(20) That was a very practical action, and consistent with his papacy.
Popish
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the pope; taught or ordained by the pope; hence, of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church; -- often used opprobriously.