(pōp) noun
1. Often cap. The bishop of Rome, the visible head of the Roman Catholic Church, accounted by that church the vicar of Christ and successor of St. Peter. He is elected by the college of cardinals, usually from their own number.
2. Any person having, or thought to have, similar great authority.
3. In the Greek Church, a parish priest. [OE papa <LL <LGk. papas a bishop, father <Gk. pappas father]

(pōp), Alexander,
1688–1744, English poet and satirist.
—John,
1822–92, U.S. general in the Civil War.