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Noun Concept
Categories: Religious leadership roles, Bishops by type, Roman Catholic Church offices, Articles with short description, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference
EN
cardinal  Cardinal-Patriarch  Catholic cardinal  Roman Catholic Cardinal  Cardeal
EN
(Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes WordNet 3.0
English:
religion
RC
Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholicism
Catholic Church
church
title
Catholicism
Roman Catholic
priest
Catholic
Definitions
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Sources
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(Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A cardinal is a senior member of the clergy of the Catholic Church. Wikipedia
A senior official of the Catholic Church Wikipedia Disambiguation
Senior ecclesiastical official of the Catholic Church Wikidata
A high priest in the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic church, he can take part in the election of a new pope. OmegaWiki
One of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope and the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope. (See Wikipedia article on Catholic cardinals.). Wiktionary
IS A
bishop
title
position
Catholic priest
PART OF
Sacred College
Governor of Vatican City
Catholic Church hierarchy
HAS KIND
dean
cardinal-nephew
pseudocardinal
in pectore
Cardinal Vicar
+5 relations
HAS INSTANCE
Bellarmine
Borgia
CATEGORY DOMAIN
Roman Catholic
DERIVATION
cardinalship
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
HONORIFIC PREFIX
Eminence
NEXT HIGHER RANK
pope
RELIGION
Catholicism
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
EN
cardinal
Wikipedia
EN
cardinal (Catholic Church)
Wikidata
EN
cardinal
Wiktionary
EN
cardinal
OmegaWiki
EN
cardinal
Wikipedia Redirections
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Cardeal, Cardinal-Bishop, Cardinal-Deacon, Cardinal-dean, Cardinal-patriarch, Cardinal-Patriarch, cardinal-presbyter, Cardinal-Priest, Cardinal-Priests, Cardinal (Catholic), cardinal bishop, cardinal deacon, cardinal elector, cardinal electors, cardinal of the Catholic Church, Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, cardinal priest, cardinal protodeacon, cardinals (Catholic Church), Catholic Cardinal, Catholic cardinal, Kirchenfuerst, Kirchenfurst, Kirchenfürst, Piatto Cardinalizio, Prince of the Church, Prince of the Faith, Princes of the Church, Protodeacon of Sacred College of Cardinals, protodeacon of the College of Cardinals, Protodeacon of the Holy Roman Church, Protodeacon of the Sacred College of Cardinals, Roman cardinal, Roman Catholic Cardinal, Roman Catholic cardinal, Sticht
Wikidata Alias
EN
prince of the Church

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