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The College of Cardinals is divided into three orders, with formal precedence in the following sequence: [1]. Cardinal bishops (CB): the six cardinals who are assigned the titles of the seven suburbicarian dioceses in the vicinity of Rome by the pope, [a] plus a few other cardinals who have been exceptionally co-opted into the order, [9] [10] as well as patriarchs who head one of the Eastern ...
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).
The countries with the greatest number of cardinal electors were Italy (twenty), the United States (eleven) and, jointly, Germany and Spain (six each). Choropleth map indicating the number of cardinal electors in attendance from each country (unnumbered countries denote one cardinal elector) [ b ]
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 ...
Countries of origin of cardinals participating in the papal conclave of 2013. Gianfranco Ravasi of the Roman Curia, one of seventeen [56] Cardinal Electors with Twitter accounts, suspended his social media presence on his own initiative at the beginning of the interregnum, while others posted their reactions as they assembled.
Francis has consistently named cardinal electors from countries far from Rome, giving less importance than his predecessors to European nations. All cardinals, regardless of age, are allowed to ...
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