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What is a cardinalate?

What is a cardinalate? Here are some definitions.

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  1. The dignity and ecclestiastic office of Roman Catholic cardinal.
  2. Collective term for the cardinals
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At the latest Consistory he had been nominated to the cardinalate.
On the deliberate exclusion of the humanists from the cardinalate by the popes before Leo, comp.
The speech held in Rome on the occasion of his elevation to the cardinalate in 1879 by Pope Leo XIII sums up the most crucial aspect of Newman's theological career, life and work.
He died in 1638, just as the cardinalate was to be conferred upon him.
The growth of the college, however, prompted the imposition of new restrictions on the cardinalate.
From 1523 until his elevation to the cardinalate in 1528, Marino lived in Venice, where he could manage the affairs of the patriarchate of Aquileia.

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