1. The cardinals of the Church are collectively known as the College of Cardinals.

2. The new pope will be elected by the College of Cardinals, my love.

3. From 1989 to 1991, De Donatis was the archivist of the Secretary of the Sacred College of Cardinals.

4. Perhaps conscious of this disadvantage, one of his first acts after the war was to internationalize the college of cardinals.

5. The cardinals within the increasingly international College of Cardinals, beyond the Italians who were experiencing diminished influence, such as Cardinal Karol Wojtyla.

6. The body of electors was more precisely defined when, in 1059, the College of Cardinals was designated the sole body of electors.

7. A crowned pope began ruling over a college of cardinals, who in turn were drawn from hundreds of bishops and archbishops, who in turn were promoted from seminary-trained priests.

8. Consistory, (from Latin consistorium, “assembly place”), a gathering of ecclesiastical persons for the purpose of administering justice or transacting business, particularly meetings of the Sacred College of Cardinals with the pope as president.

9. The Almoner of His Holiness will also continue to carry out works of charity in accordance with the criteria employed during the Pope's lifetime. He will be dependent upon the College of Cardinals until the election of the new Pope.

10. Collegiality is the relationship between colleagues.Colleague is taken to mean a fellow member of the same profession, a group of colleagues united in a common purpose, and used in proper names, such as Electoral College, College of Cardinals, and College of Pontiffs.

11. Consistory is the anglicized form of the consistorium, a council of the closest advisors of the Roman emperors. It can also refer to: A papal Consistory, a formal meeting of the Sacred College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church Consistory court, a type of ecclesiastical court in the Church of England in the United Kingdom