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                                often capitalized                                  
              
          
                                                      : a prelate who as bishop of Rome is the head of the Roman Catholic Church                                      
                
                    
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                                                      : one that resembles a pope (as in authority)                                      
                
                    
3
                    
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                                                      : the Eastern Orthodox or Coptic patriarch of Alexandria                                      
                
                    
        b
    
          
                                          
              
          
                                                      : a priest of an Eastern church                                      
                
                    
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