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Episode 41, The Aryan Century, Part 3, Back to College.

Welcome back to A2Z History Presents the History of the Papacy podcast. I'm Steve, your host for this podcast about the history of the popes of Rome and Christian Church. The latest history podcasters.com history collage on the history of alcohol has just been released. If you can't get enough history podcasting, then you should definitely

go download it. This latest installment is hosted by none other than me. Don't let that turn you off,

though, because many great history podcasters have added excellent contributions, so definitely

check it out. The College of Cardinals holds a special and central position in the Roman Catholic Church.

These quote-unquote princes of the church don't have any real parallels in other Christian traditions.

The College of Cardinals is a unique institution that is nearly as important to the Roman Catholic Church as the Pope himself.

The Cardinals are a key link between the worldwide Catholic population and the Pope in Rome.

If you go all the way back to episode five of this podcast during the special we did on the election

of Pope Francis I, we did an episode on the College of Cardinals.

There was a brief bit on the history of the college in that episode, but the main point of the

episode was to talk about how the Cardinals participated in the election of the Pope.

I mentioned at that time the foundations of the college go back to about the fourth century,

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