Pontifex Maximus - Incomplete List of Pontifices Maximi

Incomplete List of Pontifices Maximi

  • 753 BC to 712 BC – Duties and power of office (even if perhaps not the title) held by the Kings of Rome
  • 712 BC – Numa Marcius
  • ...
  • 509 BC – C.Papirius (Dionys.Halik. III, 36.4)
  • ...
  • 449 BC – Quintus Furius (Liv. III, 54.5; Asconius 77C has M.Papirius)
  • 431 BC – A.Cornelius Cossus, winner of the spolia opima (Liv. IV, 27.1)
  • 420 BC – Spurius Minucius
  • 390 BC – Follius Flaccinator ; M.Folius (Flaccinator) (Liv. V, 41.3)
  • ...
  • 334 BC – Cornelius Callissa ; correctly P.Cornelius Calussa
  • c.330 BC - P. Cornelius Scapula (cos.325), AE 1967,19 (MRR III, 70) 4th century BC sarcophagus inscription found in Rome: P.CORNELIO P.F. SCAPOLA PONTFEX MAX. Before this text was found Livy's consul of 325-4 BC P.Cornelius Scapula was usually emended to P.Cornelius Scipio
  • 304 BC – Cornelius Barbatus, possibly Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus
  • ...
  • 254 BC – Tiberius Coruncanius
  • 243 BC – Lucius Caecilius Metellus (d. 221 BC)
  • 220 BC – Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus (d. ca 213 BC)
  • 212 BC – Publius Licinius Crassus Dives (d. 183 BC),
  • 182 BC – Gaius Servilius Geminus (d. 180 BC), the cognomen Geminus is false
  • 179 BC – Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (d. 151 BC)
  • 150 BC – Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum (d. 141 BC)
  • ?141 BC – Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio (d. 132 BC Pergamum, Asia Minor)
  • 131 BC – Publius Licinius Crassus Dives Mucianus (killed in battle 131 BC, Asia Minor)
  • 130/29 BC – Publius Mucius Scaevola (d. 120/115 BC)
  • 119/14 BC – Lucius Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus (died 107 BC)
  • 106 BC - Q. Servilius Caepio (cos. 106), exiled 104, murdered in Rome 87
  • 103 BC – Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (d. 91 BC)
  • 90 BC – Quintus Mucius Scaevola Pontifex murdered in Rome 82 BC
  • 81 BC – Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius (d. 64 BC)
  • 63 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar (d. 44 BC)
  • 44 BC – Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, triumvir (d. 13 BC),
  • 6 March 12 BC – Augustus
  • 12 BC to AD 376 – Held by the Emperors

From some indeterminate later date to present, the title "Pontifex Maximus" is applied to the Popes.

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