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    Pope John Paul II - 1920-2005

    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

    ———

    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

    ———

    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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