papacy

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1. The office of a pope. (countable, uncountable)
2. The office of the pope of Rome, who is the head of the Roman Catholic Church. (countable, uncountable) · The Vatican defends the primacy of the papacy.
3. The period of a particular pope's reign. (countable, uncountable) · The papacy of John Paul II ended in 2005, after the pope's long battle with illness ended.
4. Roman Catholicism generally: synonym of popery. (countable, uncountable)

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