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The number of votes required to be elected pope with a two-thirds supermajority, [3] [251] if all 139 cardinal electors were to participate (notwithstanding the maximum of 120 specified in Universi Dominici gregis), would be 93.
Each of Francis' consistories has increased the number of cardinal electors from at or less than the set limit of 120 [b] to a number higher than 120, as high as 140 in 2024, surpassing the record 135 set by Pope John Paul II in 2001 and 2003. [2] Since 2 June 2023, two-thirds of the cardinal electors have been cardinals created by Francis. [3]
By the papacy of Sixtus V (1585–1590), the number was set at seventy on 3 December 1586, divided among fourteen cardinal-deacons, fifty cardinal-priests, and six cardinal-bishops. [ 5 ] Popes respected that limit until Pope John XXIII increased the number of cardinals several times to 88 in January 1961 [ 15 ] and Pope Paul VI continued this ...
By the start of next year, there will be 140 cardinal electors, almost 80% of them chosen by Francis. ... Church law technically limits the number of elector cardinals to 120, but recent popes ...
There are now 137 cardinal electors, about 73 percent of them chosen by Franc Pope Francis cements legacy, stamps Church future with new cardinals Skip to main content
This consistory took the number of cardinal electors from 97 to 121, which fell within a month to the maximum of 120, a majority of them appointed by John Paul. [a] It brought the total number of cardinals to a new high of 160, of whom John Paul named 84. [16]
This list of 2024 United States presidential electors contains members of the Electoral College, known as "electors", who cast ballots to elect the president of the United States and vice president of the United States in the 2024 presidential election. There are 538 electors from the 50 states and the District of Columbia. [1]
The 115 attending cardinal electors were from 48 countries on all six inhabited continents. [e] The countries with the greatest number of cardinal electors were Italy (twenty-eight), the United States (eleven) and Germany (six).