List of potential cardinal-electors for a papal conclave
By Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Curious who will choose the next pope? 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.