Pope

  1. Proper noun.  An English surname.
  2. Proper noun.  Alexander Pope, English poet.
  3. Noun.  (Christianity) The bishop of Rome; the head of the Roman Catholic church.
  4. Noun.  (context, by extension) The head of any religion.
  5. Noun.  (''Eastern Christianity'') The Bishop or Patriarch of Alexandria.
  6. Noun.  A small Eurasian freshwater fish, ''Gymnocephalus cernua''.
  7. Noun.  Any of various birds having reddish plumage on the breast, especially the bullfinch.
  8. Noun.  (''in Russian tradition'') An Eastern Orthodox priest.

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