Jacobus Arminius on the Alleged Authority of the Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church

        The Roman Pontiff[1] is not the head of the church; and because he boasts himself of being that head, the name of “Anti-christ” on this account most deservedly belongs to him.

 

Jacobus Arminius, ‘Disputation LIII: On the Head and the Marks of the Church’, in The Works of James Arminius, trans. James Nichols and William Nichols, London edn, 3 vols. (repr., Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill Press, 1986), 2.418

Note

        1. In our present time, the Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church is more commonly referred to simply as ‘the Pope’. —J. D. Gallé