When Charlie Bettis Pope was born on 12 June 1881, in Marengo, Alabama, United States, his father, Silas Morgan Pope, was 38 and his mother, Sarah Catherine Virginia "Jennie" Sanders, was 32. He died on 8 July 1904, at the age of 23, and was buried in Hoboken, Marengo, Alabama, United States.
English: nickname from Middle English pope (derived via Old English from Late Latin papa ‘bishop, pope’, from Greek pappas ‘father’, in origin a nursery word.) In the early Christian Church, the Latin term was at first used as a title of respect for male clergy of every rank, but in the Western Church it gradually came to be restricted to bishops, and then only to the bishop of Rome; in the Eastern Church it continued to be used of all priests (see Popov , Papas ). The nickname would have been used for a vain or pompous man, or for someone who had played the part of the pope in a pageant or play. The surname is also present in Ireland and Scotland.
North German: variant of Poppe .
German: translation of Pabst .
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