cardinalate

Noun

Meaning

The office, rank, or dignity of a cardinal.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cardinalship Sacred College of Cardinals ministry rabbinate clergy cloth priesthood conclave seniority pulpit presbytery pastorate prelacy Cardinals College of Cardinals
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Antonyms

laity

Hypernyms

place body position office post situation

Examples

following the scandal, the cardinal resigned his cardinalate Source: Internet

Another nephew, Cinzio Papareschi (died 1182), was also a cardinal, raised to the cardinalate in 1158, after Innocent's death. Source: Internet

Eamon Duffy, Saints & Sinners: A History of the Popes, 251. Cardinalate Those who suffered under his conscientious economics had managed to convince Pope Clement XIV to elevate him into the cardinalate. Source: Internet

Consistories main Pope Paul VI held six consistories between 1965 and 1977 that raised 143 men to the cardinalate in his fifteen years as pope. Source: Internet

College and orders of cardinalate Pope Sixtus V limited the number of cardinals to 70, comprising six cardinal bishops, 50 cardinal priests, and 14 cardinal deacons. Source: Internet

Callixtus III elevated nine new cardinals into the cardinalate in two consistories on 20 February 1456 and 17 December 1456. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

cardinal vowel cardinal woodpecker cardinal-abbot Cardinale cardinalfish cardinalic