Cardinalate

Eamon Duffy, Saints & Sinners: A History of the Popes, 251. Cardinalate Those who suffered under his conscientious economics had managed to convince Pope Clement XIV to elevate him into the cardinalate.

He elevated two cardinals to the cardinalate in the only papal consistory of his cardinalate on 18 December 1591.

Another nephew, Cinzio Papareschi (died 1182), was also a cardinal, raised to the cardinalate in 1158, after Innocent's death.

Cardinalate Piccolomini was the administrator of the Archdiocese of Siena which his uncle had raised to the status of archbishopric.

Cardinalate Pope Paul VI created Luciani the Cardinal-Priest of San Marco in the consistory on 5 March 1973.

College and orders of cardinalate Pope Sixtus V limited the number of cardinals to 70, comprising six cardinal bishops, 50 cardinal priests, and 14 cardinal deacons.

Furthermore, Montini said to him via letter on 29 November 1952 that Pius XII had decided to raise him to the cardinalate.

Further, only one relative (and only "if otherwise suitable") was to be raised to the cardinalate.

He elevated three of his closest relatives to the cardinalate and gave others important positions.

His appointment came about as the replacement of Gabriele Filippucci who declined the cardinalate.

If a pope dies before revealing the identity of an in pectore cardinal, the cardinalate expires.

John XXII, was nonetheless a nepotist, having appointed five of his nephews to the cardinalate.

Pope Eugene IV elevated him to the cardinalate on 2 May 1444 after he managed to reconcile the pope and King Alfonso V of Aragon.

Since Borgia had renounced the cardinalate it was decided that it would be inappropriate for his bones to be moved into the church.

The reason a prelate of such transcendent merits received the cardinalate so late in life seems to have been that he had waived his claims to the elevation in favour of an older brother.