6 sentences with 'cardinals'
Example sentences and phrases with the word cardinals and other words derived from it.
• « The monasteries and convents were not alone in their wealth. The upper ranks of the Church - bishops, archbishops, cardinals and the popes themselves - were almost exclusively from the European nobility. »
• « Their fears seemed to be confirmed when Pope Clement V began appointing new cardinals, a pattern that eventually saw 113 French cardinals out of 134 appointed in the following decades. »
• « As rival factions developed in the upper echelons of the Church hierarchy, one group of French cardinals elected another, the French pope (Clement VII), and Europe was thus divided between two rival popes, who excommunicated each other as heretics and impostors (the term used at the time was "antipope"). »
• « the main exception was that the cardinals and bishops forbade the sale of indulgences in the future (the Church still granted them, but they were no longer sold simply for money). »
• « The Pope in Rome, for example, oversaw a huge bureaucracy led by cardinals, known as 'princes of the church', who were followed by archbishops, bishops and then priests. »