List of potential cardinal-electors for a papal conclave

Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY – Here is a list of cardinal-electors, from oldest to youngest, eligible to vote for a pope in a conclave.

Cardinal Walter Kasper turns 80 March 5; depending on the date of the conclave, he might be over 80, and thus too old to vote in a conclave. The next oldest, Cardinal Severino Poletto of Turin, Italy, turns 80 March 18.

– Walter Kasper, president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

– Severino Poletto of Turin, Italy.

– Juan Sandoval Iniguez of Guadalajara, Mexico.

– Godfried Danneels of Mechelen-Brussels.

– Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa of Santiago de Chile.

– Raffaele Farina, retired head of the Vatican Secret Archives and the Vatican Library.

– Geraldo Majella Agnelo of Sao Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.

– Joachim Meisner of Cologne, Germany.

– Raul Vela Chiriboga of Quito, Ecuador.

– Giovanni Battista Re, former prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.

– Giovanni Battista Tettamanzi of Milan.

– Francesco Monterisi, retired secretary of the Congregation for Bishops.

– Claudio Hummes, retired prefect of the Congregation for Clergy.

– Carlos Amigo Vallejo of Seville, Spain.

– Paolo Sardi, a former official in the Vatican Secretariat of State.

– Paul Josef Cordes, past president of Cor Unum.

– Franc Rode, retired prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

– Tarcisio Bertone, secretary of state.

– Julius Darmaatmadja, Jakarta, Indonesia.

– Jean-Baptiste Pham Minh Man, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

– Giovanni Lajolo, former president of the commission governing Vatican City State.

– Antonios Naguib, Alexandria, Egypt.

– Justin Rigali of Philadelphia.

– Velasio De Paolis, papal delegate overseeing reform of the Legionaries of Christ and Regnum Christi.

– Santos Abril Castello, archpriest of Basilica of St. Mary Major.

– Jose da Cruz Policarpo, Lisbon, Portugal.

– Roger Mahony, retired archbishop of Los Angeles.

– Julio Terrazas Sandoval of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.

– Ivan Dias, former prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

– Karl Lehmann of Mainz, Germany.

– William Joseph Levada, retired prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

– Anthony Olubunmi Okogie of Lagos, Nigeria.

– Jean-Claude Turcotte of Montreal.

– Antonio Maria Rouco Varela of Madrid.

– Jaime Ortega Alamino of Havana.

– Nicolas Lopez Rodriguez of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

– Ennio Antonelli of Florence, Italy.

– Theodore-Adrien Sarr of Dakar, Senegal.

– Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

– Francis George of Chicago.

– Audrys Juozas Backis Vilnius, Lithuania.

– Raymundo Damasceno Assis of Aparecida, Brazil.

– Attilio Nicora, president emeritus of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See.

– Lluis Martinez Sistach of Barcelona, Spain.

– Antonio Maria Veglio, president of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers.

– Paolo Romeo of Palermo, Italy.

– Francesco Coccopalmerio, president of the Pontifical Council for Interpreting Legislative Texts.

– Keith O’Brien of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland.

– Manuel Monteiro de Castro, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary.

– Carlo Caffarra, of Bologna, Italy.

– Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes.

– Edwin F. O’Brien, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre.

– Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow, Poland.

– John Tong Hon of Hong Kong.

– Sean Brady of Armagh, Northern Ireland.

– Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kinshasa, Congo.

– Zenon Grocholewski, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education.

– Telesphore Toppo, of Ranchi, India.

– Bechara Rai, Maronite patriarch.

– Agostino Vallini, papal vicar for Rome.

– Donald W. Wuerl of Washington.

– Gabriel Zubeir Wako of Khartoum, Sudan.

– Wilfrid F. Napier of Durban, South Africa.

– George Pell of Sydney.

– Angelo Scola of Milan.

– Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City.

– Jorge Urosa Savino of Caracas, Venezuela.

– Ruben Salazar Gomez of Bogota, Colombia.

– Giuseppe Bertello, president of the Governorate of Vatican City State.

– Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture.

– Andre Vingt-Trois of Paris.

– Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

– Angelo Bagnasco of Genoa, Italy.

– Domenico Calcagno, president of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See.

– Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.

– George Alencherry of Ernakulam-Angamaly, major archbishop of Syro-Malabar Catholic Church.

– Dominik Duka of Prague, Czech Republic.

– Crescenzio Sepe of Naples, Italy.

– Giuseppe Versaldi, president of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See.

– Angelo Comastri, archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica.

– Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches.

– Juan Cipriani Thorne of Lima, Peru.

– John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan of Abuja, Nigeria.

– Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.

– Sean Patrick O’Malley of Boston.

– Polycarp Pengo of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.

– Mauro Piacenza, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy.

– Jean-Pierre Ricard of Bordeaux, France.

– Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, India.

– John Njue of Nairobi, Kenya.

– Christoph Schonborn of Vienna.

– Robert Sarah, president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum.

– Stanislaw Rylko, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity.

– Vinko Puljic of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

– Llovera Antonio Canizares, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments.

– Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

– Thomas C. Collins of Toronto.

– Giuseppe Betori of Florence, Italy.

– Joao Braz de Aviz, prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

– Albert Malcom Ranjith of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

– Raymond L. Burke, prefect of the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature.

– Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

– Francisco Robles Ortega of Guadalajara, Mexico.

– Josip Bozanic of Zagreb, Croatia.

– Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston.

– Odilo Pedro Scherer of Sao Paulo.

– James M. Harvey, archpriest of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls.

– Kazimierz Nycz of Warsaw, Poland.

– Timothy M. Dolan of New York.

– Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

– Philippe Barbarin of Lyon, France.

– Peter Erdo of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary.

– Willem Jacobus Eijk of Utrecht, Netherlands.

– Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising, Germany.

– Rainer Maria Woelki of Berlin.

– Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila, Philippines.

– Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal, major archbishop of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church.

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