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• The decision was made during the pontificate of Pope John XX.
• Under the pontificate of his former pupil Paul II (1464-1471), he returned to Rome and was appointed a papal abbreviator, but became involved in fresh quarrels in 1465 he visited Crete and Byzantium, and then returned to Rome, where he wrote the account of the martyrdom of Bl. Andrew of Chios The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
• Like my colleagues, I don't speak in jargoned riddles -- or, as he parodied in his "Restoring History" episode, arrogantly pontificate through pipe-smoke, an authoritative blue blazer unsuccessfully concealing my fey pink shirt. Megan Doherty: My Walk With Glenn Beck, 21st Century Con Man
• In his short pontificate he distributed 1900 solidi to the clergy and to the deaconries for the poor. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
• Poor Prince Charles preaches and pontificates about harmony and simplicity, then ties himself in masochistic bondage knots of inconsistency by spending £100k on a biofuelled train tour to promote cycling. Hypocrisy of champagne environmentalists is deceitful and distracting | Ed Gillespie
• Flags flew at half-mast, pundits pontificated, and Americans watched replay after replay of airplanes flying into the World Trade Center. Ocean Robbins: Was 9/11 Really a Call to War?
• When Francesco Borromini came to restore the nave of the Lateran basilica during the pontificate of Innocent X, subsidiary altars again had no role to play.
• He will seize any opportunity to pontificate, expressing his views with fervid self-assurance and with little concern for time constraints or his audience.
• Both Pius XI and Pius XII had pontificates that built upon the concordats begun under Benedict.
• No, certainly I mustn't play the mystical seer and pontificate as if I knew all the answers! ABSOLUTE TRUTHS