







The candidates for the Pope election 2013 – New Pope



* Under the terms of Pope Paul VI’s motu proprio Ingravescentem Aetatem, cardinals who have reached the age of 80 before the conclave openes have no vote in papal elections.

* There are now a total of 209 Cardinals, of whom 118 are aged under 80. Of the voting-age cardinals, 51 were appointed by Pope John Paul II, and 67 by Pope Benedict XVI.

Within the College of Cardinals, there are three categories, ranked Cardinal Bishops, then Cardinal Priests, and finally Cardinal Deacons.

Cardinals not attending the Conclave:

* 78 year-old Cardinal Julius Riyadi Darmaatmadja from Indonesia will not take part in the Conclave due to health reasons.

* The Archbishop of Edinburgh and Saint Andrews, Cardinal Keith O’Brien, resigned after allegations of “improper behavior”.









Members of the College of Cardinals qualified to vote:

Cardinals of the Order of Bishops

* Giovanni Battista Re (Italy) – born 30 January 1934 – Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Bishops, Cardinal 21 February 2001, Cardinal Bishop of Sabina-Poggio Mirteto since October 2002

* Tarcisio Bertone (Italy) – born 2 December 1934 – Cardinal Secretary of State and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, Cardinal 21 October 2003, Cardinal Bishop of Frascati since May 2008

* Antonios Naguib (Egypt) – born 7 March 1935 – Patriarch Emeritus of Alexandria (Coptic Catholic Church), Cardinal 20 November 2010

* Bechara Boutros al-Rahi (Lebanon) – born 25 February 1940 – Patriarch of Antioch (Maronite Catholic Church), Cardinal 24 November 2012

Cardinals of the Order of Priests

* Godfried Danneels (Belgium) – born 5 June 1933 – Archbishop Emeritus of Mechelen-Brussels

* Joachim Meisner (Germany) – born 25 December 1933 – Archbishop of Cologne

* Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez (Dominican Republic) – born 31 October 1936 – Archbishop of Santo Domingo

* Roger Mahony (United States) – born 27 February 1936 – Archbishop Emeritus of Los Angeles

* Julius Riyadi Darmaatmadja (Indonesia) – born 20 December 1934 – Archbishop Emeritus of Jakarta

* Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino (Cuba) – born 18 October 1936 – Archbishop of San Cristóbal de la Habana

* Jean-Claude Turcotte (Canada) – born 26 June 1936 – Archbishop Emeritus of Montreal

* Vinko Puljić (Bosnia and Herzegovina) – born 8 September 1945 – Archbishop of Vrhbosna (Sarajevo)

* Juan Sandoval Íñiguez (Mexico) – born 28 March 1933 – Archbishop Emeritus of Guadalajara

* Antonio María Rouco Varela (Spain) – born 24 August 1936 – Archbishop of Madrid

* Dionigi Tettamanzi (Italy) – born 14 March 1934 – Archbishop Emeritus of Milan

* Polycarp Pengo (Tanzania) – born 5 August 1944 – Archbishop of Dar-es-Salaam

* Christoph Schönborn; OP (Austria) – born 22 January 1945 – Archbishop of Vienna

* Norberto Rivera Carrera (Mexico) – born 6 June 1942 – Archbishop of Mexico

* Francis Eugene George (United States) – born 16 January 1937 – Archbishop of Chicago

* Zenon Grocholewski (Poland) – born 11 October 1939 – Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education

* Crescenzio Sepe (Italy) – born 2 June 1943 – Archbishop of Naples

* Walter Kasper (Germany) – born 5 March 1933 – President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

* Ivan Dias (India) – born 14 April 1936 – Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples

* Geraldo Majella Agnelo (Brazil) – born 19 October 1933 – Archbishop Emeritus of São Salvador da Bahia

* Audrys Juozas Bačkis (Lithuania) – born 1 February 1937 – Archbishop of Vilnius

* Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa (Chile) – born 5 September 1933 – Archbishop Emeritus of Santiago de Chile

* Julio Terrazas Sandoval (Bolivia) – born 7 March 1936 – Archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra

* Wilfrid Fox Napier (South Africa) – born 8 March 1941 – Archbishop of Durban

* Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga; SDB (Honduras) – born 29 December 1942 – Archbishop of Tegucigalpa

* Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne (Peru) – born 28 December 1943 – Archbishop of Lima

* Cláudio Hummes (Brazil) – born 8 August 1934 – Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Clergy

* Jorge Mario Bergoglio; SJ (Argentina) – born 17 December 1936 – Archbishop of Buenos Aires

* José IV Policarpo (Portugal) – born 26 February 1936 – Patriarch of Lisbon

* Severino Poletto (Italy) – born 18 March 1933 – Archbishop Emeritus of Turin

* Karl Lehmann (Germany) – born 16 May 1936 – Bishop of Mainz

* Angelo Scola (Italy) – born 7 November 1941 – Archbishop of Milan

* Anthony Olubumni Okogie (Nigeria) – born 16 June 1936 – Archbishop Emeritus of Lagos

* Gabriel Zubeir Wako (Sudan) – born 27 February 1939 – Archbishop of Khartoum

* Carlos Amigo Vallejo (Spain) – born 23 August 1934 – Archbishop Emeritus of Seville

* Justin Francis Rigali (United States) – born 19 April 1935 – Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia

* Keith Michael Patrick O’Brien (Scotland) – born 17 March 1938 – Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh

* Ennio Antonelli (Italy) – born 18 November 1936 – President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Family

* Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson (Ghana) – born 11 October 1948 – President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace

* Telesphore Placidus Toppo (India) – born 13 October 1939 – Archbishop of Ranchi

* George Pell (Australia) – born 8 April 1941 – Archbishop of Sydney

* Josip Bozanić (Croatia) – born 20 March 1949 – Archbishop of Zagreb

* Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn (Vietnam) – born 5 March 1934[9] – Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City

* Philippe Barbarin (France) – born 17 October 1950 – Archbishop of Lyon

* Péter Erdő (Hungary) – born 25 June 1952 – Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest

* Marc Ouellet (Canada) – born 8 June 1944 – Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops

* Agostino Vallini (Italy) – born 17 April 1940 – Vicar General for the Diocese of Rome

* Jorge Urosa (Venezuela) – born 28 August 1942 – Archbishop of Caracas

* Jean-Pierre Ricard (France) – born 25 September 1944 – Archbishop of Bordeaux

* Antonio Cañizares Llovera (Spain) – born 15 October 1945 – Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments

* Seán Patrick O’Malley (United States) – born 29 June 1944 – Archbishop of Boston

* Stanisław Dziwisz (Poland) – born 27 April 1939 – Archbishop of Kraków

* Carlo Caffarra (Italy) – born 1 June 1938 – Archbishop of Bologna

* Seán Brady (Ireland) – born 16 August 1939 – Archbishop of Armagh

* Lluís Martínez Sistach (Spain) – born 29 April 1937 – Archbishop of Barcelona

* André Armand Vingt-Trois (France) – born 7 November 1942 – Archbishop of Paris

* Angelo Bagnasco (Italy) – born 14 January 1943 – Archbishop of Genoa

* Théodore-Adrien Sarr (Senegal) – born 28 November 1936 – Archbishop of Dakar

* Oswald Gracias (India) – born 24 December 1944 – Archbishop of Bombay

* Francisco Robles Ortega (Mexico) – born 2 March 1949 – Archbishop of Guadalajara

* Daniel DiNardo (United States) – born 23 May 1949 – Archbishop of Galveston-Houston

* Odilo Pedro Scherer (Brazil) – born 21 September 1949 – Archbishop of São Paulo

* John Njue (Kenya) – born 1944 – Archbishop of Nairobi

* Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga (Ecuador) – born 1 January 1934 – Archbishop Emeritus of Quito

* Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya (Democratic Republic of the Congo) – born 7 October 1939 – Archbishop of Kinshasa

* Paolo Romeo (Italy) – born 20 February 1938 – Archbishop of Palermo

* Donald William Wuerl (United States) – born 12 November 1940 – Archbishop of Washington

* Raymundo Damasceno Assis (Brazil) – born 15 February 1937 – Archbishop of Aparecida

* Kazimierz Nycz (Poland) – born 1 February 1950 – Archbishop of Warsaw

* Patabendige Don Albert Malcolm Ranjith (Sri Lanka) – born 15 November 1947 – Archbishop of Colombo

* Reinhard Marx (Germany) – born 21 September 1953 – Archbishop of Munich and Freising

* George Alencherry (India) – born 19 April 1945 – Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly (Syro-Malabar Catholic Church)

* Thomas Christopher Collins (Canada) – born 16 January 1947 – Archbishop of Toronto

* Dominik Duka; OP (Czech Republic) – born 26 April 1943 – Archbishop of Prague

* Willem Jacobus Eijk (Netherlands) – born 22 June 1953 – Archbishop of Utrecht

* Giuseppe Betori (Italy) – born 25 February 1947 – Archbishop of Florence

* Timothy M. Dolan (United States) – born 6 February 1950 – Archbishop of New York

* Rainer Maria Woelki (Germany) – born 18 August 1956 – Archbishop of Berlin

* John Tong Hon (Hong Kong) – born 31 July 1939 – Bishop of Hong Kong

* Baselios Cleemis (India) – born 15 June 1959 – Major Archbishop of Trivandrum (Syro-Malankara Catholic Church)

* John Onaiyekan (Nigeria) – born 29 January 1944 – Archbishop of Abuja

* Rubén Salazar Gómez (Colombia) – born 22 September 1942 – Archbishop of Bogotá

* Luis Antonio Tagle (Philippines) – born 21 June 1957 – Archbishop of Manila

Cardinals of the Order of Deacons

* Jean-Louis Tauran (France) – born 3 April 1943 – President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, Cardinal Protodeacon since February 2011

* Attilio Nicora (Italy) – born 16 March 1937 – President of the Financial Information Authority

* William Joseph Levada (United States) – born 15 June 1936 – Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

* Franc Rodé (Slovenia) – born 23 September 1934 – Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life

* Leonardo Sandri (Argentina) – born 18 November 1943 – Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches

* Giovanni Lajolo (Italy) – born 3 January 1935 – President Emeritus of the Governorate of Vatican City State

* Paul Josef Cordes (Germany) – born 5 September 1934 – President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum

* Angelo Comastri (Italy) – born 17 September 1943 – Archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica, Vicar General for the Vatican City State, and President of the Fabric of St. Peter

* Stanisław Ryłko (Poland) – born 4 July 1945 – President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity

* Raffaele Farina (Italy) – born 24 September 1933 – Librarian and Archivist Emeritus of the Holy Roman Church

* Angelo Amato (Italy) – born 8 June 1938 – Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints

* Robert Sarah (Guinea) – born 15 June 1945 – President of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum

* Francesco Monterisi (Italy) – born 28 May 1934 – Archpriest Emeritus of the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls

* Raymond Leo Burke (United States) – born 30 June 1948 – Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura

* Kurt Koch (Switzerland) – born 15 March 1950 – President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

* Paolo Sardi (Italy) – born 1 September 1934 – Patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta

* Mauro Piacenza (Italy) – born 15 September 1944 – Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy

* Velasio de Paolis (Italy) – born 19 September 1935 – President Emeritus of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See

* Gianfranco Ravasi (Italy) – born 18 October 1942 – President of the Pontifical Council for Culture

* Fernando Filoni (Italy) – born 15 April 1946 – Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples

* Manuel Monteiro de Castro (Portugal) – born 29 March 1938 – Major Penitentiary

* Santos Abril y Castelló (Spain) – born 21 September 1935 – Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore

* Antonio Maria Vegliò (Italy) – born 3 February 1938 – President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants

* Giuseppe Bertello (Italy) – born 1 October 1942 – President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State

* Francesco Coccopalmerio (Italy) – born 6 March 1938 – President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts

* João Braz de Aviz (Brazil) – born 24 April 1947 – Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life

* Edwin Frederick O’Brien (United States) – born 8 April 1939 – Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem

* Domenico Calcagno (Italy) – born 3 February 1943 – President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See

* Giuseppe Versaldi (Italy) – born 30 July 1943 – President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See

* James Michael Harvey (United States) – born 20 October 1949 – Archpriest of the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls



