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Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Search Results: "pontifex

Title Matches: 6
Pontifex (1)
institution." and probably found a place in the earliest religious organization of the Latin race. Their number was originally four, or, including the pontifex maximus, five, all of whom were taken from the patricians. In B.C. 300, the Ogulnian Law raised the number to nine, four of whom were to be plebeians.
Pontifex Maximus
Before the time of Constantine the clergy were not recognized as holding any distinct rank in the state; but when Christianity was adopted as the religion
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