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Sacred College

British  

noun

  1. the collective body of the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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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On June 19, the members of the Sacred College of Cardinals, each to be accompanied by one aide, will assemble in the Sistine Chapel.

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The Sacred College has dwindled to 49 members�24 Italian, 25 non-Italian.

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The Sacred College of Cardinals now has only 42 members, the fewest in a century.

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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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