the vestments and other insignia of a pontiff (especially a bishop)
adj.
proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles; papal, apostolic, apostolical
papal dispensation
denoting or governed by or relating to a bishop or bishops; episcopal
puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek; grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, portentous
