# Caesar is elected pontifex maximus in 63 BCE as a dated priestly-political office

Date: 63 BC

## The fact

In 63 BCE Caesar was elected pontifex maximus. It is a priestly-political office, not the Gallic War. Julius Caesar's documented role is: He won the pontificate as a political election. Voters and money sat in the received file; he did not found Roman religion.

## Context

Crassus's money sits in later report. Sharing the election with the comitia is required. The setting of Caesar is elected pontifex maximus in 63 BCE as a dated priestly-political office is the public file around -0063-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Britannica — Julius Caesar, pontifex maximus at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julius-Caesar-Roman-ruler (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Livius — Caesar, career at https://www.livius.org/articles/person/caesar/ (Livius.org). Official carrier: Britannica — Julius Caesar, pontifex maximus (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julius-Caesar-Roman-ruler; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Livius — Caesar, career (https://www.livius.org/articles/person/caesar/; Livius.org).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Julius Caesar, pontifex maximus (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julius-Caesar-Roman-ruler; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Improving path from Caesar is elected pontifex maximus in 63 BCE as a dated priestly-political office on -0063-01-01. A chief-priesthood won as office is a cohesion path of low-to-medium weight. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Year-level 63. Do not treat a later bust as a photograph. Mixed effects of Caesar is elected pontifex maximus in 63 BCE as a dated priestly-political office are separate paths.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Caesar is elected pontifex maximus in 63 BCE as a dated priestly-political office under -0063-01-01 for Julius Caesar. Established: a sourced public record of Caesar is elected pontifex maximus in 63 BCE as a dated priestly-political office under -0063-01-01.

Shared responsibility is part of Caesar is elected pontifex maximus in 63 BCE as a dated priestly-political office. Naming Julius Caesar does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0063-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

The attached driver is social-cohesion. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Julius Caesar: https://factrail.ai/people/julius-caesar

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.livius.org/articles/person/caesar/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Julius-Caesar-Roman-ruler

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/juc-pontifex-63