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Noun

1. 1
   The dignity of the camerlengo (cardinal who presides over the Apostolic Chamber in pontifical interregnum).
2. 2
   period, between the death of a pontiff and the election of his successor, in which a camerlengo is in charge of governing the Church in the administrative field.

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