All pontiff synonyms

noun pontiff

• ecclesiast — A member of the Athenian Ecclesia.
• abbas — Ferhat. 1899–1985, Algerian nationalist leader: joined the National Liberation Front (1956); president of the provisional government of the Algerian republic (1958–61)
• monsignor — a title conferred upon certain prelates.
• lama — a priest or monk in Lamaism.
• churchperson — A person involved with the church; a churchgoer or cleric.
• lamas — a priest or monk in Lamaism.
• churchpersons — Plural form of churchperson.
• archbishop — In the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican Churches, an archbishop is a bishop of the highest rank, who is in charge of all the bishops and priests in a particular country or region.
• berretta — biretta
• bishop — A bishop is a clergyman of high rank in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox churches.
• diocesan — of or relating to a diocese.
• friar — Roman Catholic Church. a member of a religious order, especially the mendicant orders of Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, and Augustinians.
• miter — the official headdress of a bishop in the Western Church, in its modern form a tall cap with a top deeply cleft crosswise, the outline of the front and back resembling that of a pointed arch.
• clergyman — A clergyman is a male member of the clergy.
• nuncio — a diplomatic representative of the pope at a foreign court or capital: equal in status to an ambassador.
• cardinals — of prime importance; chief; principal: of cardinal significance.
• clergyperson — a member of the clergy
• man of the cloth — a clergyman or other ecclesiastic.
• mitre — to bestow a miter upon, or raise to a rank entitled to it.
• churchman — A churchman is the same as a clergyman.
• cassock — A cassock is a long piece of clothing, often black, that is worn by members of the clergy in some churches.
• ablegate — a papal envoy who has important duties abroad such as bringing a cardinal's insignia to him when he has just been appointed, or taking a message to a sovereign
• abba — father (used of God)