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

Besides the immense prestige which comes to a cardinal in his own country, there goes with a cardinalate the duty of participating in the election of a Pope.

From Time Magazine Archive

If Shehan's elevation to the cardinalate was unexpected�there were Vatican observers who thought Philadelphia's energetic Archbishop John Krol a more plausible candidate�other appointments were not.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Cardinal Tencin, he says, and Lord and Lady Lismore, have been bribed by England to wheedle Henry into the cardinalate, ‘which England desires more than anything in the world.’

From Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles by Lang, Andrew