The phrase "a pontifical" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is related to a pontiff or has a formal, authoritative tone, often in a religious context.
Example: "The bishop delivered a pontifical address during the ceremony, emphasizing the importance of faith and community."
Alternatives: "a papal" or "an ecclesiastical".
He was successful, however, in raising a pontifical fleet that relieved many of the Aegean islands.
At the time, he was an assistant vice rector of a pontifical seminary.
Mr. DiFrancesco blessed the applause with a pontifical wag of his upturned hand.
Before World War II, Shkodër was the chief Roman Catholic centre of Albania, with a cathedral, a pontifical college, and Franciscan and Jesuit convents, libraries, and publishing houses.
Seeking to check waves of protest, Vatican officials said the meeting was a pontifical audience rather than a formal meeting of heads of state.
The car ended up on a sidewalk just north of the Old City's Jaffa Gate, between City Hall and the Notre Dame of Jerusalem Center, a pontifical institute.
None have his career longevity or pedigree, which includes a position as a lecturer on movies at the Gregorian, a revered pontifical university in Rome, and an Italian book of essays on movies, "Cinema: Sacred and Profane".
A Newark rabbi, Lionel Bengelsdorf — a deliciously pontifical windbag (compare Judge Wapter, in "The Ghost Writer") — has been put in charge of the O.A.A. for the state of New Jersey, and, as he sees it, only narrow, paranoid "ghetto Jews" could find fault with this estimable project.
He was given a state funeral attended by 70 senators, and a Solemn Pontifical Requiem Mass was said before more than 100 priests and 2,000 others at Washington's St. Matthew's Cathedral.
A two-month course at Rome's Regina Apostolorum, a prestigious pontifical university, will focus on the history, theology and sociology of Satanism and black magic, and the healing power of exorcism.
He celebrated a special, pontifical high mass at Notre Dame on 14 September and addressed the Canadian bishops' annual conference two days later.
