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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For the first time in four centuries the Sacred College of Cardinals had been specially summoned to discuss church affairs.
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Last week he did both by announcing that he intends to create 35 new cardinals�the largest number ever named at one time�thereby raising membership in the Sacred College to an alltime record of 136.
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Paul made the Sacred College in his own image, and he shunned the extremes.
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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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