Wikipedia: History of Catholic Cardinal

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Anyone originally could be appointed a cardinal: bishops, priests or laymen; but today only bishops can be appointed as cardinals. In modern practice non-bishop priests are given a titular bishopric before being installed as cardinals, however laymen are excluded.

Anyone originally could be appointed a cardinal: bishops, priests or laymen; but today only bishops can be appointed as cardinals. In modern practice only priests and bishops are eligible to be appointed cardinals; priests are consecrated as bishops and given a titular see before being installed as cardinals. Laymen are ineligible to be appointed as cardinals.

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