noun

• (Roman Catholicism and generally) An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
  "Þa wæs in þa tid Uitalius papa þæs apostolican seðles aldorbiscop."
• (Roman Catholicism and generally) An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
  "We often say, that every man has a pope in his belly."
• (Roman Catholicism and generally) An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
  "In þat yle dwelleth the Pope of hire lawe, þat þei clepen lobassy."
• (Roman Catholicism and generally) An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
  "Eche day there etyn in his court xii erchebeshopis and xx bishopis, and the patriak of Seynt Thomays is as here pope."

verb

• (intransitive or with 'it') To act as or like a pope.
  "1537, T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman, Life & Lett. Cromwell (1902), II. 89"
• (intransitive, colloquial) To convert to Roman Catholicism.
  "I'm not going to ‘Pope’ until after the war (if I'm alive)."

noun

• (alcoholic beverages) Any mulled wine (traditionally including tokay) considered similar and superior to bishop.
  "When made with Burgundy or Bordeaux, the mixture was called Bishop; when with old Rhenish, its name was Cardinal; and when with Tokay, it was dignified with the title of Pope."

noun

• (Russian Orthodoxy) Alternative form of pop, a Russian Orthodox priest.
  "The other Ecclesiastical Orders are distinguish'd into Proto-popes, Popes, (or Priests) and Deacons."