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The 23 pages that link to College of Cardinals, each with the reason it gives.

• Catholic ChurchRelated: Its election of a pope is a key procedure for maintaining central leadership.

• Gregorian ReformRelated: Reformers’ efforts to reduce lay influence strengthened the cardinals’ role in papal elections.

• PopeRelated: Its eligible members choose the next pope and assist with church governance.

• Western SchismRelated: Cardinals who disputed Urban VI’s election chose Clement VII instead.

• Pope Julius IINarrower topic: Its members elected Julius II pope in the conclave of 1503.

• Roman CuriaRelated: Cardinals often lead Curial offices, linking central administration with papal counsel and succession.

• Dictatus PapaeRelated: A proposition assigns the cardinals a decisive role in papal election.

• Latin ChurchRelated: Cardinals assist papal governance and, when eligible, choose the next pope.

• PapacyRelated: Cardinals elect the pope and assist in governing the Church.

• Pope Paul IIIRelated: Paul III appointed reform-minded cardinals who helped prepare the Council of Trent.

• Christ Church, OxfordBroader topic: It was the immediate institutional predecessor of Christ Church.

• Pope John XXIIIRelated: John XXIII appointed new cardinals and worked through this body in governing the Church.

• Renaissance papacyRelated: Cardinals administered the Curia and competed for influence in papal government.

• Pope Alexander IIIRelated: Disagreement among its members produced competing papal elections in 1159.

• Pope Clement VRelated: Cardinal politics shaped Clement’s election and the governance of his pontificate.

• Pope Paschal IIRelated: The cardinals elected Paschal after Urban II’s death in 1099.

• Pope Urban VINarrower topic: Cardinals first elected Urban and then supplied the dissenting faction that chose Clement VII.

• Clement VIIRelated: Cardinals who rejected Urban VI’s election later chose Clement at Fondi.

• Pope John Paul IRelated: Cardinals formed the electorate that chose Luciani.

• Pope Pius VIIIRelated: Castiglioni joined the body that later elected him pope.

• Pope Urban VIINarrower topic: Its cardinals elected Urban VII and assembled again after his death.

• History of the papacyRelated: Cardinals became central to papal governance and the selection of popes.

• Pope Clement XINarrower topic: Its members elected Albani after an unusually prolonged conclave.