Assertion: pope | /r/HasProperty | regarded inter pares
Facets:
value: as the primus
type: OTHER
value: simply
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Once regarded simply as the primus inter pares, the “first among equals,” the pope of Rome, by virtue of being the successor to Saint Peter, the first of the apostles, was seen as worthy of the greatest respect of any of the bishops of the Church.