cardinal
senior ecclesiastical official of the Catholic Church
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Summary
cardinal is a title[1]. cardinal ranks in the top 2% of title entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (14,867 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Religion or worldview: Catholicism[3], Catholic Church[4]
- Instance of: position[5], Catholic vocation[6]
- Noble title: cardinal title[7]
- Subclass of: Catholic cleric[8], prince[9]
- Part of: Catholic Church hierarchy[10], College of Cardinals[11]
- Commons category: Cardinals[12]
- Honorific prefix: His Eminence[13]
- Has part(s): cardinal elector[14], cardinal-bishop[15], cardinal priest[16], cardinal-deacon[17], Cardinal in pectore[18]
- Topic's main category: Category:Cardinals (Catholic Church)[19]
- Applies to jurisdiction: cardinal title[20]
- Conferred by: Pope[21]
- Depicted by: Portrait of a Cardinal[22], The Cardinal and Theological Virtues[23]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[24], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[26], The Catholic Encyclopedia[27], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5[28]
- Topic has template: Template:Infobox cardinal[29]
- Main Wikidata property: P14931[30]
- Different from: Cardinal[31], cardinal number[32]
- Organization directed by the office or position: cardinal title[33]
- Male form of label: cardeal[34]
- Next higher rank: Pope[35]
- Category for eponymous categories: Category:Wikipedia categories named after cardinals[36]
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Cultural Significance
Things named for cardinal include cardinal slice[37].
Why It Matters
cardinal has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] cardinal is known by 77 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]
Entities named for cardinal include cardinal slice[37].