Papal office utterly deep, reportedly? (4,3)
I believe the answer is:
holy see
'papal office' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'utterly deep reportedly?' is the wordplay.
'utterly' becomes 'holy' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'deep' becomes 'sea' (the deep can mean the sea).
'reportedly?' shows a homophone (sound like) (I've seen 'reportedly' mean this).
'sea' sounds like 'see'.
'holy'+'see'='HOLY SEE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for holy see that I've seen before include "Papal office" , "Rome ecclesiastically" , "Sovereign state within Rome" , "The papacy or papal court" , "place where RC governs" .)