cardinal nephew

Noun

Meaning

cardinal nephew (plural cardinal nephews)

Alternative spelling of cardinal-nephew

(singular only) The position of the Secretarius Papae et superintendens status ecclesiasticæ in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holy See.

(countable) Any officeholder of that position.

cardinal-nephew (plural cardinal-nephews)

Any cardinal created by the nepotism of a Pope

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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