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- noun singular only The
position of the Secretarius Papae et superintendens status ecclesiasticæ in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuryHoly See . - noun countable Any officeholder of that position.
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Collins is instructive in tracing the persistent influence of the Roman senatorial class on the papacy as well as the development of the new Roman Senate, the College of Cardinals, including the curious office of the Cardinal Nephew, which was filled by several scapegraces and at least one saint, Charles Borromeo.
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