Difference between Papacy and Pontificate

PAPACY vs PONTIFICATE: NOUN

The office, dignity, and authority of the Pope or Bishop of Rome; the papal; jurisdiction; the ecclesiastical organization subject to the Pope.
That system of ecclesiastical government which recognizes and is based upon the apostolic primacy and supreme authority of the Pope or Bishop of Rome over the church universal; the Church of Rome; the Roman Catholic Church.
The office and dignity of the pope, or pontiff, of Rome; papal jurisdiction.
The popes, collectively; the succession of popes.
The Roman Catholic religion; -- commonly used by the opponents of the Roman Catholics in disparagement or in an opprobrious sense.
The office of the pope.
The period of a particular pope's reign.
The government of the Roman Catholic Church
The system of church government headed by the pope.
A succession or line of popes.
The period of time during which a pope is in office.
The office and jurisdiction of a pope.
The succession or line of popes, with its ecclesiastical and political traditions.

Talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner
To preside as a bishop, especially at mass.
To act like a pontiff; to express one’s position or opinions dogmatically and pompously as if they were absolutely correct.
To speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner, especially at length.
Administer a pontifical office

Episcopate, Archbishop, Pontifical, Patriarchate, Vatican city, Papal infallibility, Roman catholicism, Episcopacy, Apostolic, Holy see, Holy father, Papal, Pontiff, Pope, Pontificate

Pius ix, Encyclicals, Motu proprio, Holy see, Conclave, Homily, Bloviate, Pontifical, Papal, Holy father, Pope, Pontiff, Orate, Rant, Papacy

Episcopate, Archbishop, Pontifical, Patriarchate, Vatican city, Papal infallibility, Roman catholicism, Episcopacy, Apostolic, Holy see, Holy father, Papal, Pontiff, Pope, Pontificate

Pius ix, Encyclicals, Motu proprio, Holy see, Conclave, Homily, Bloviate, Pontifical, Papal, Holy father, Pope, Pontiff, Orate, Rant, Papacy

French alliance to promote his candidate for the papacy.
Papacy has been a target for criticism by some.
Most of his teachings are condemned by the papacy.
Say what you will about the Francis papacy.
Western Schism also known as the Avignon Papacy.
Return of the papacy from Avignon to Rome.
His control over the papacy was definitely abated.
This has served, and still serves, the Papacy; and often the Papacy has served it.
Jeffrey Richards responds to the traditionalist view of the papacy more directly in The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages.
His polemical pieces directed at the papacy represented the insurmountable divide between the Evangelical camp and the Papacy.

US; and I am not wiling to publicly speculate or pontificate.
Futuristic Christmas Carols, as I pontificate on the holiday season.
All of the dissenters can do is speculate and pontificate.
After our appetizer and salad, we were brought pontificate vb.
Certainly the present pontificate is not merely an unfortunate aberration.
Government: What is the driving force of his pontificate?
ROCQUAIN, La puissance pontificate sous Gregoire VII in Cpte.
Before his pontificate, the world was divided into blocs.
Lord, in the first year of our pontificate.
It reveals deeper issues in the ongoing transition from the pontificate of Benedict XVI to the pontificate of Francis.