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Julius Caesar created the Julian calendar as part of his role as Pontifex Maximus. Popes continue to hold that title today, so the Pope updating the calendar is
by wl 4y ago
Julius Caesar created the Julian calendar as part of his role as Pontifex Maximus. Popes continue to hold that title today, so the Pope updating the calendar is weirdly appropriate.
- tsol 4y ago(For context I'm not Christian I'm Muslim) Wait is the modern pope an extension of the Christian Roman emperor? I always knew the Vatican was in Rome, but I never knew the reasoning
- wl 4y agoIn some sense, the Roman Catholic Church is the last vestige of the Roman empire. The Pope is sometimes floated as someone who might have a claim to the title of Roman Emperor. (Personally, I think the Ottomans have the best claim here, but that's neither here nor there.) But no, at the time Julius Caesar was Pontifex Maximus, he wasn't emperor. It was an elite priesthood office. Hundreds of years later, the Roman Emperors claimed the title. In the 15th century, the Roman Pope started formally claiming it for themselves.