The Pontifex Maximus (Latin, literally: `greatest pontiff`) was the high priest of the College of Pontiffs (Collegium Pontificum) in ancient Rome. This was the most important position in the ancient Roman religion, open only to patricians until 254 BC, when a plebeian first occupied this post. A distinctly religious office under the early Roman .....
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(from the article `Augustus`) The death in 12 of Lepidus enabled Augustus finally to succeed him as the official head of the Roman religion, the chief priest (pontifex maximus). ... ...prerogatives, presumably to ensure that his imperium was in no particular inferior to a consul`s; in 12, when Lepidus died, he became pontifex ... In...
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The Roman high priest. Head of the four orders of priesthood. The pontifex maximus was not a real magistrate: he did not serve for a fixed period, but for life, and he remained, officially, a citizen. As the title suggests, the pontifex maximus was the greatest or chairman of the college of the pontifices, priests. They were responsible for the Rom…...
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Pontifex Maximus The chief or senior priest and head of the state religion of Rome; in this case, it is not a reference to the Roman Catholic Church but to classical Rome. At first he was probably required to be a patrician, but by the middle Republic era he was more than likely to be a plebeian. He supervised all of the various members of the pr...
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(Latin) chief pontiff in Rome; duties included regulation of the Roman calendar and compilation of the annales, an annual record of magistrate names and memorable Roman events; the most famous pontifex maximus was Julius Caesar, elected pontifex maximus in 63 BCE; Caesar's best known reform as pontifex was to introduce the 'Julian Calendar,' a cale...
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