Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa, Honduras is one of the current cardinal electors. CNS photo

New cardinals will join 108 eligible to elect pope

By 
  • February 13, 2012

The following is the list of cardinals under the age of 80 who are eligible to elect the pope. They are listed in alphabetical order, with their country. 

Agnelo, Geraldo Majella, Brazil
Amato, Angelo, S.D.B., Italy
Amigo Vallejo, Carlos, O.F.M., Spain
Antonelli, Ennio, Italy
Arinze, Francis, Nigeria
Backis, Audrys Juozas, Lithuania
Bagnasco, Angelo, Italy
Baldelli, Fortunato, Italy
Barbarin, Philippe, France
Bergoglio, Jorge Maria, S.I., Argentina
Bertone, Tarcisio, S.D.B., Italy
Bozanic, Josip, Croatia
Brady, Sean, Ireland
Burke, Raymond, United States
Caffarra, Carlo, Italy
Canizares Llovera, Antonio, Spain
Cipriani Thorne, Juan Luis, Peru
Comastri, Angelo, Italy
Cordes, Paul Josef, Germany
da Cruz Policarpo, José, Portugal
Damasceno Assis, Raymundo, Brazil
Danneels, Godfried, Belgium
Darmaatmadja, Julius Riyadi, S.I., Indonesia
De Paolis, Velasio, C.S., Italy
Dias, Ivan, India
DiNardo, Daniel, United States
Dziwisz, Stanislaw, Poland
Egan, Edward, United States
Erdo, Peter, Hungary
Errazuriz Ossa, Francisco Javier, Chile
Farina, Raffaele, S.D.B., Italy
George, Francis, United States
Gracias, Oswald, India
Grocholewski, Zenon, Poland
Hummes, Claudio, O.F.M., Brazil
Husar, Lubomyr, M.S.U., Ukraine
Kasper, Walter, Germany
Koch, Kurt, Switzerland
Lajolo, Giovanni, Italy
Lehmann, Karl, Germany
Levada, William, United States
Lopez Rodriguez, Nicolas de Jesus, Dominican Republic
Lozano Barragan, Javier, Mexico
Mahoney, Roger, United States
Martinez Sistach, Lluis, Spain
Martino, Renato, Italy
Marx, Reinhard, Germany
Meisner, Joachim, Germany
Monsengwo Pasinya, Laurent, Democratic Republic of Congo
Monterisi, Francesco, Italy
Murphy-O’Connor, Cormac, England
Naguib, Antonius, Egypt
Napier, Wilfred, O.F.M., South Africa
Nicora, Attilio, Italy
Njue, John, Kenya
Nycz, Kazimierz, Poland
O’Brien, Keith, Scotland
Okogie, Anthony, Nigeria
O’Malley, Sean, United States

CardinalBanner2

Ortega Y Alamino, Jaime, Cuba
Ouellet, Marc, P.S.S., Canada
Patabandige Don, Albert, Sri Lanka
Pell, George, Australia
Pengo, Polycarp, Tanzania
Pham Minh Man, Jean-Baptiste, Vietnam
Piacenza, Mauro, Italy
Poletto, Severino, Italy
Puljic, Vinko, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Quezada Toruno, Rodolfo, Guatemala
Ravasi, Gianfranco, italy
Re, Giovanni Battista, italy
Ricard, Jean-Pierre, France
Rigali, Justin, United States
Rivera Carrera, Norberto, Mexico
Robles Ortega, Francisco, Mexico
Rodé, Franc, Slovenia
Rodriguez Maradiaga, Oscar, S.D.B., Honduras
Romeo, Paolo, Italy
Rosales, Gaudencio Borbon, Philippines
Rouco Varela, Antonio, Spain
Rubiano Saenz, Pedro, Colombia
Rylko, Stanislaw, Poland
Sandoval Iniguez, Juan, Mexico
Sandri, Leonardo, Argentina
Sarah, Robert, Guinea
Sardi, Paolo, Italy
Sarr, Theodore-Adrien, Senegal
Scheid, Eusébio Oscar, Brazil
Scherer, Odilo Pedro, Brazil
Schonborn, Christoph, O.P., Austria
Schwery, Henri, Switzerland
Scola, Angelo, Italy
Sepe, Crescenzio, Italy
Stafford, James, United States
Tauran, Jean-Louis, France
Terrazas Sandoval, Julio, C.SS.R., Bolivia
Tettamanzi, Dionigi, Italy
Toppo, Telesphore Placidus, India
Turcotte, Jean-Claude, Canada
Turkson, Peter, Ghana
Urosa Savino, Jorge Liberato, Venezuela
Vallini, Agostino, Italy
Vela Chiriboga, Raul Eduardo, Ecuador
Vingt-Trois, Andre, France
Vlk, Miloslav, Czech Republic
Wuerl, Donald William, United States
Zubeir Wako, Gabriel, Sudan

[issuu width=600 height=360 shareMenuEnabled=false showHtmlLink=false shareButtonEnabled=false searchButtonEnabled=false backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=120213145325-3bfc806d6b34412495cfeafcd1f595f4 name=cardinalcollins username=catholicregister tag=canada unit=px id=210c4e7b-566f-f004-1010-691ae972570f v=2]

Please support The Catholic Register

Unlike many media companies, The Catholic Register has never charged readers for access to the news and information on our website. We want to keep our award-winning journalism as widely available as possible. But we need your help.

For more than 125 years, The Register has been a trusted source of faith-based journalism. By making even a small donation you help ensure our future as an important voice in the Catholic Church. If you support the mission of Catholic journalism, please donate today. Thank you.

DONATE