Saturday, February 16, 2013

List of potential cardinal-electors for a papal conclave

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.