Editing Pope (section)

=== Title and etymology ===
{{Main|Pope (title)|l1=''Pope'' (title)}}
The word ''[[Pope (title)|pope]]'' derives {{etymology|grc|''{{Wikt-lang|grc|πάππας}}'' (páppas)|father}}. In the early centuries of Christianity, this title was applied, especially in the East, to all [[bishop]]s<ref name="ODCC:Pope">{{cite dictionary |dictionary=Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-19-280290-3 |title=Pope}}</ref> and other senior clergy, and later became reserved in the West to the bishop of Rome during the reign of [[Pope Leo I]] (440–461),<ref>Asimov, Isaac (1967) ''The Roman Empire'', Houghton Mifflin: Boston, p. 236</ref> a reservation made official only in the 11th century.<ref>{{cite book |last=Elwell |first=Walter A. |url= |title=Evangelical Dictionary of Theology |publisher=Baker Academic |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-8010-2075-9 |page=888 |access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Greer |first=Thomas H. |url= |title=A Brief History of the Western World |author2=Gavin Lewis |publisher=Cengage Learning |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-534-64236-5 |page=172 |access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Mazza |first=Enrico |title=The Eucharistic Prayers of the Roman Rite |publisher=Liturgical Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-8146-6078-2 |page=63}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=O'Malley |first=John W. |url= |title=A History of the Popes |publisher=Government Institutes |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-58051-227-5 |page=xv}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Schatz |first=Klaus |title=Papal Primacy |publisher=Liturgical Press |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-8146-5522-1 |pages=28–29 |access-date=}}</ref> The earliest record of the use of the title of 'pope' was in regard to the by-then-deceased [[patriarch of Alexandria]], [[Heraclas]] (232–248).<ref>Eusebius, ''Historia Ecclesiastica'' Book VII, chapter 7.4</ref> The earliest recorded use of the title "pope" in English dates to the mid-10th century, when it was used in reference to the 7th century Roman [[Pope Vitalian]] in an Old English translation of [[Bede]]'s {{lang|la|[[Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum]]}}.<ref>"pope, n.1". Oxford English Dictionary Online. September 2011. Oxford University Press. 21 November 2011</ref>