cardinalate
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In 1917, the Holy See changed canon law, restricting the cardinalate to the ordained.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2018
Not diplomacy or administrative policy dictated the Pope's latest appointments, which bring the cardinalate to the unprecedented number of 68, two less than full strength.
From Time Magazine Archive
Six Roman Catholic prelates learned last month that they were to be raised to the cardinalate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Surrounded by friends and family, Domenico Tardini, 70, received the Pope's messenger bringing him official notification of his elevation to the cardinalate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Browning makes his Pope to be the son of a fisherman, who, on his elevation to the cardinalate, kept his fisher-father’s net in his palace-hall on a coat-of-arms, as token of his humility.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
