Sacred College
Britishnoun
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The Sacred College of Cardinals now has only 42 members, the fewest in a century.
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Working against a quick decision is the fact that the Sacred College of Cardinals has never been so large nor so diverse.
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The death of Dell'Acqua, one of the Pope's closest aides, was the second in the Sacred College of Cardinals within a month and the fourth this year, reducing its number to 116.
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There he received the Christmas felicitations of a score of cardinals, delivered in a speech by Gennaro Granito Cardinal Pignatelli di Bel-nionte, 81, dean of the Sacred College.
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He convoked the Sacred College, and laid before it the letters of the Cardinal Legate and of Cardinal Fesch, who, as French Ambassador at Rome, had been charged by his government with the negotiation.
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, April 1865 by Various
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