Sacred College

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

With measured tread, the Sacred College advances down the two long aisles in a swirl of scarlet and incense.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bernardin is the only American among the 18 clerics who will be elevated to the Sacred College of Cardinals by Pope John Paul II at a special consistory on Feb. 2.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thanks to Pius XII's indifference to Vatican administrative detail, the Sacred College was then sadly depleted; so many cardinals were near death's door that the choice easily narrowed to a handful of prospects.

From Time Magazine Archive

Paul made the Sacred College in his own image, and he shunned the extremes.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is no point the non-Italian Episcopate with the foreign Cardinals and the Great Powers, are so united upon as throwing open the Curia and the Sacred College to foreigners.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von