VATICAN CITY – The new pope is elected by cardinals under the age of 80. Here is a breakdown by region and country of the cardinal electors (search) expected to attend the conclave, followed by a list of the 117 electors and of the 66 cardinals aged 80 and over.
CARDINAL ELECTORS BY COUNTRY:
Note that Pope John Paul II (search) has kept secret — or "in pectore," in the chest — the name of one of the cardinals he nominated.
EUROPE, 58
Italy, 20
Germany, 6
Spain, 6
France, 5
Poland, 3
Britain, 2
Hungary, 2
Portugal, 2
Ukraine, 2
Austria,1
Belgium, 1
Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1
Crotia, 1
Czech Republic, 1
Ireland, 1
Latvia, 1
Lithuania, 1
Netherlands, 1
Switzerland, 1
SOUTH AMERICA, 21
Brazil, 4
Mexico, 4
Colombia, 3
Chile, 2
Argentina, 1
Bolivia, 1
Dominican Republic, 1
Cuba, 1
Guatemala, 1
Honduras, 1
Nicaragua, 1
Peru, 1
NORTH AMERICA, 14
United States, 11
Canada, 3
AFRICA, 11
Nigeria, 2
Cameroon, 1
Democratic Republic of Congo, 1
Ghana, 1
Ivory Coast, 1
Madagascar, 1
South Africa, 1
Sudan, 1
Tanzania, 1
Uganda, 1
ASIA, 11
India, 3
Japan, 2
Philippines, 2
Indonesia, 1
Syria, 1
Thailand, 1
Vietnam, 1
AUSTRALIA, 2
Australia, 1
New Zealand, 1
TOTAL: 117 cardinals from 52 countries
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CARDINAL ELECTORS (name, age, nationality)
EUROPE
Francisco Alvarez Martinez, 79, Spain
Carlos Amigo Vallejo, 70, Spain
Ennio Antonelli, 68, Italy
Audrys Juozas Backis, 68, Lithuania
Philippe Xavier Ignace Barbarin, 54, France
Tarcisio Bertone, 70, Italy
Giacomo Biffi, 76, Italy
Josip Bozanic, 56, Croatia
Agostino Cacciavillan, 78, Italy
Ricardo Maria Carles Gordo, 78, Spain
Marco Ce, 79, Italy
Desmond Connell, 79, Ireland
Godfried Danneels, 71, Belgium
Salvatore De Giorgi, 74, Italy
Peter Erdo, 52, Hungary
Michele Giordano, 74, Italy
Jozef Glemp, 75, Poland
Zenon Grocholewski, 65, Poland
Julian Herranz Casado, 75, Spain
Lubomyr Husar, 72, Ukraine
Marian Jaworski, 78, Ukraine
Walter Kasper, 72, Germany
Karl Lehmann, 68, Germany
Jean-Marie Lustiger, 78, France
Franciszek Macharski, 77, Poland
Francesco Marchisano, 75, Italy
Eduardo Martinez Somalo, 78, Spain
Carlo Maria Martini, 78, Italy
Renato Raffaele Martino, 72, Italy
Joachim Meisner, 71, Germany
Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, 72, Britain
Attilio Nicora, 68, Italy
Keith Michael Patrick O'Brien, 67, Ireland
Bernard Panafieu, 74, France
Laszlo Paskai, 77, Hungary
Severino Poletto, 72, Italy
Jose da Cruz Policarpo, 69, Portugal
Mario Francesco Pompedda, 75, Italy
Paul Poupard, 74, France
Janis Pujats, 74, Latvia
Vinko Puljic, 59, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Joseph Ratzinger, 77, Germany
Giovanni Battista Re, 71, Italy
Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, 68, Spain
Camillo Ruini, 74, Italy
Jose Saraiva Martins, 73, Portugal
Cristoph Schonborn, 60, Austria
Henri Schwery, 72, Switzerland
Angelo Scola, 63, Italy
Sergio Sebastiani, 73, Italy
Crescenzio Sepe, 61, Italy
Adrianus Johannes Simonis, 73, Netherlands
Angelo Sodano, 77, Italy
Georg Maximilian Sterzinsky, 69, Germany
Jean-Louis Pierre Tauran, 61, France
Dionigi Tettamanzi, 71, Italy
Vlk Miloslav, 72, Czech Republic
Friedrich Wetter, 77, Germany
SOUTH AMERICA
Geraldo Majella Agnelo, 71, Brazil
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 68, Argentina
Dario Castrillon Hoyos, 75, Colombia
Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, 61, Peru
Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa, 71, Chile
Jose Freire Falcao, 79, Brazil
Claudio Hummes, 70, Brazil
Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, 68, Dominican Republic
Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, 69, Colombia
Javier Lozano Barragan, 72, Mexico
Jorge Arturo Medina Estevez, 78, Chile
Miguel Obando Bravo, 79, Nicaragua
Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, 68, Cuba
Rodolfo Quezada Toruno, 73, Guatemala
Norberto Rivera Carrera, 62, Mexico
Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, 62, Honduras
Pedro Rubiano Saenz, 72, Colombia
Juan Sandoval Iniguez, 72, Mexico
Eusebio Oscar Scheid, 72, Brazil
Adolfo Antonio Suarez Rivera, 78, Mexico
Julio Terrazas Sandoval, 69, Bolivia
NORTH AMERICA
Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic, 75, Canada
William Wakefield Baum, 78, Washington (former archbishop)
Edward Michael Egan, 73, New York
Francis Eugene George, 68, Chicago
William Henry Keeler, 74, Baltimore
Bernard Francis Law, 73, Boston (former archbishop)
Roger Michael Mahony, 69, Los Angeles
Adam Joseph Maida, 75, Detroit
Theodore Edgar McCarrick, 74, Washington
Marc Ouellet, 60, Canada
Justin Francis Rigali, 69, Philadelphia
James Francis Stafford, 72, Denver (former archbishop)
Edmund Casimir Szoka, 77, Detroit (former archbishop)
Jean-Claude Turcotte, 68, Canada
AFRICA
Bernard Agre, 79, Ivory Coast
Francis Arinze, 72, Nigeria
Frederic Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, 74, Democratic Republic of Congo
Wilfrid Fox Napier, 64, South Africa
Anthony Olubunmni Okogie, 68, Nigeria
Polycarp Pengo, 60, Tanzania
Armand Gaetan Razafindratandra, 79, Madagascar
Christian Wiyghan Tumi, 74, Cameroon
Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, 56, Ghana
Emmanuel Wamala, 78, Uganda
Gabriel Zubeir Wako, 64, Sudan
ASIA
Ignace Moussa I Dauod, 74, Syria
Julius Riyadi Darmaatmadja, 70, Indonesia
Ivan Dias, 68, India
Stephen Fumio Hamao, 75, Japan
Michael Michai Kitbunchu, 76, Thailand
Jean-Baptiste Pham Minh Man, 70, Vietnam
Peter Seiichi Shirayanagi, 76, Japan
Jaime Lachica Sin, 76, Philippines
Telesphore Placidus Toppo, 65, India
Ricardo J. Vidal, 74, Philippines
Varkey Vithayathil, 77, India
AUSTRALIA
George Pell, 63, Australia
Thomas Stafford Williams, 75, New Zealand
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NON ELECTOR CARDINALS (name, age, nationality)
Gilberto Agustoni, 82, Switzerland
Fiorenzo Angelini, 88, Italy
Lorenzo Antonetti, 82, Italy
Luis Aponte Martinez, 82, Puerto Rico
Serafim Fernandes de Araujo, 80, Brazil
Paulo Evaristo Arns, 83, Brazil
Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua, 81, Philadelphia (former archbishop)
Giovanni Canestri, 86, Italy
Giuseppe Caprio, 90, Italy
Edward Idris Cassidy, 80, Australia
Rosalio Jose' Castillo Lara, 82, Venezuela
Giovanni Cheli, 86, Italy
Edward Bede Clancy, 81, Austrailia
Ernesto Corripio Ahumada, 85, Mexico
Georges Joseph Marie Martin Cottier, 82, Switzerland
Cahal Brendan Daly, 87, Ireland
Andrzej Maria Deskur, 81, Poland
Alexandre do Nascimento, 80, Angola
Avery Dulles, 86, Auburn, N.Y.
Roger Etchegaray, 82, France
Angelo Felici, 85, Italy
Carlo Furno, 83, Italy
Edouard Gagnon, 87, Canada
Bernardin Gantin, 82, Benin
Stephanos II Ghattas, 85, Egypt
Antonio Jose Gonzalez Zumarraga, 80, Ecuador
Henryk Roman Gulbinowicz, Poland
Jean Honore, 84, France
Antonio Innocenti, 89, Italy
Antonio Maria Javierre Ortas, 84, Spain
Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, 82, South Korea
Jan Chryzostom Korec, 81 Slovakia
Adam Kozlowiecki, 94, Poland
Pio Laghi, 82, Italy
Aloisio Lorscheider, 80, Brazil
D. Simon Lourdusamy, 81, India
Jean Margeot, 89, Mauritius
Paul Augustin Mayer, 93, Germany
Jorge Maria Mejia, 82, Argentina
Dino Monduzzi, 82, Italy
Stanislas Kazimiers Nagy, 83, Poland
Virgilio Noe', 83, Italy
Salvatore Pappalardo, 86, Italy
Paul Joseph Pham Dinh Tung, 85, Vietnam
Simon Ignatius Pimenta, 85, India
Silvano Piovanelli, 81, Italy
Luigi Poggi, 87, Italy
Raul Francisco Primatesta, 85, Argentina
Giovanni Saldarini, 80, Italy
Eugenio de Araujo Sales, 84, Brazil
Jose T. Sanchez, 85, Philippines
Alexandre Jose Maria dos Santos, 81, Mozambique
Leo Scheffczyk, 85, Germany
Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir, 84, Lebanon
Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, 81, Taiwan
Achille Silvestrini, 81, Italy
Tomas Spidlik, 85, Czech Republic
Alfons Maria Stickler, 94, Austria
Angel Suquia Goicoechea, 88, Spain
Kazimierz Swiatek, 90, Estonia
Pio Taofinu'u, 81, Samoa
Jozef Tomko, 81, Slovakia
Ersilio Tonini,90, Italy
Roberto Tucci, 83, Italy
Louis-Albert Vachon, 93, Canada
Johannes Willebrands, 95, Netherlands
TOTAL: 66
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