supreme pontiff

Unfortunately the Roman climate made it impossible for Guido to accept the invitation of the supreme pontiff.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

-- M. 1845.] [Footnote 22: Petrarch compares the jealousy of the Romans with the easy temper of the husbands of Avignon, (Mémoires, tom.i. p. 330.)] [Footnote 221: All this Rienzi, writing at a later period to the archbishop of Prague, attributed to the criminal abandonment of his flock by the supreme pontiff.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765

-- M. 1845.] [Footnote 22: Petrarch compares the jealousy of the Romans with the easy temper of the husbands of Avignon, (Mémoires, tom.i. p. 330.)] [Footnote 221: All this Rienzi, writing at a later period to the archbishop of Prague, attributed to the criminal abandonment of his flock by the supreme pontiff.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 Edward Gibbon 1765