Sacred College

noun

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

Example Sentences

The second presents the notion of one old sacred college for the maintenance of poetic uniformity.

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Cardinal Maury took up the suggestion with enthusiasm, and employed all his eloquence to impress the Sacred College with the idea.

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On the 15th of June the sacred college resolved on condemnation, and approved of the famous bull.

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Meanwhile his friends were not idle: and he had friends, as I have already hinted, even in the sacred college.

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This council was a kind of sacred college or senate, destined only to represent tradition and a spirit of conservatism.

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