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How to pronounce cardinalate in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms college of cardinals, sacred college, sacred college of cardinals
Type of body
Type Words
Synonyms cardinalship
Type of place, billet, office, berth, situation, post, position, spot


following the scandal, the cardinal resigned his cardinalate.

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The cardinalate is a service is, it is not an award to be bragged about.
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On August 17, 1498, Cesare became the first person in history to resign the cardinalate.
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In his first consistory in 1879 he elevated his older brother Giuseppe to the cardinalate.
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In 1969, Pope Paul VI asked him to accept appointment to the cardinalate.
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Several popes elevated nephews and other relatives to the cardinalate.
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Newman's personal coat of arms upon his elevation to the cardinalate.
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Bishop Coussa was almost immediately elevated to the cardinalate, but died two years later.
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If a pope dies before revealing the identity of an in pectore cardinal, the cardinalate expires.
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On being appointed to the cardinalate, he is said to have received the red hat, or cardinal's biretta.
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