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The College of Cardinals
- Abstract:
- The College of Cardinals is a key constituent organ within the papacy, its members being charged with electing the pope and with advising him. Cardinals were originally priests and deacons who assisted the pope in his liturgical and charitable duties around the city of Rome during the first millennium and also the Bishops of Rome’s neighboring “suburbicarian” dioceses. These three orders of clerics cohered into a single College during the Gregorian reform of the eleventh and twelfth centuries: their status and role in papal affairs has waxed and waned in the centuries since. Today the College is more diverse and representative of global Catholicism than at any point in the past. However, it is also a larger and a less cohesive body, whose members are less familiar with each other – or with the pope – than their predecessors were.
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+ Rollo-Koster, J
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- Editor
+ Ventresca, RA
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+ Eichbauer, MH
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- Editor
+ Pattenden, M
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- HUMS
- Department:
- History Faculty
- Oxford college:
- Wolfson College
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- Editor
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- 0000-0002-0750-9454
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Host title:
- The Cambridge History of the Papacy Volume 2. The Governance of the Church
- Pages:
- 182-204
- Chapter number:
- 7
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
- Publication date:
- 2025-02-28
- Acceptance date:
- 2024-02-28
- Edition:
- 1
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- EISBN:
- 9781108663410
- ISBN:
- 9781108493826
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English
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1803262
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