CARDINALATE

cardinalate

Noun

  1. The dignity and ecclestiastic office of Roman Catholic cardinal.
    ''The cardinalate ranks equal to a secular prince of the blood
  2. Collective term for the cardinals.
    ''The cardinalate under a maximum age composes the conclave which elects the pope


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