31. Cossus later served as pontifex maximus. 32. On 22 September 36 BC Lepidus was stripped of all his offices except that of Pontifex Maximus. 33. Afterwards it became common and no longer against the law for the Pontifex Maximus to leave Italy. 34. The general superior receives his authority directly from the Supreme Pontifex through the Congregation of Consecrated Life. 35. The church ballyhoos a house band called the SS Bootboys and its leader styles himself the pontifex maximus. 36. This was reaffirmed and extended in the Romanus Pontifex bull of 1455 ( also by Nicholas V ). 37. The ritual requested the participation of both an augur ( presumably Manius Valerius himself ) and a pontifex . 38. Many, such as Julius Caesar, went on to hold consulships during their time as pontifex maximus. 39. The approval of slavery under these conditions was reaffirmed and extended in his Romanus Pontifex bull of 1455. 40. The Vatican granted Rivero distinctions Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and Pro Ecclesia et Pontifex .
