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List of potential cardinal-electors for a papal conclave

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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.

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