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Cardinal electors for the papal conclave, 2005

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The following is a list of the 115 cardinal electors in the 2005 papal conclave, arranged by region and, within each region, alphabetically. Two cardinals who were eligible to participate in the conclave, namely Adolfo Suarez Rivera and Jaime Sin, did not attend due to ill health. Except for Joseph Ratzinger and William Wakefield Baum, all the Cardinals in attendance were appointed by Pope John Paul II.

Contents

Roman Curia

  1. Francis Arinze, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
  2. William Wakefield Baum, Major Penitentiary Emeritus
  3. Agostino Cacciavillan, President Emeritus of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See
  4. Julián Herranz Casado, President of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts
  5. Ignace Daoud, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
  6. Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez, Senior Cardinal Deacon, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
  7. Zenon Grocholewski, Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education
  8. Stephen Fumio Hamao, President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants
  9. Darío Castrillón Hoyos, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy
  10. Walter Kasper, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
  11. Bernard Francis Law, Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore
  12. Javier Lozano Barragán, President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers
  13. Alfonso López Trujillo, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family
  14. Francesco Marchisano, Archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica
  15. Renato Raffaele Martino, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
  16. José Saraiva Martins, CMF, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
  17. Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church
  18. Attilio Nicora, President of Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See
  19. Mario Francesco Pompedda, Prefect Emeritus of the Apostolic Signatura
  20. Paul Poupard, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture
  21. Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Dean of the College of Cardinals (was elected Pope and chose the name Benedict XVI)
  22. Giovanni Battista Re, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops
  23. Sergio Sebastiani, President of Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See
  24. Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
  25. Angelo Sodano, Cardinal Secretary of State, Vice Dean of the College of Cardinals
  26. James Francis Stafford, Major Penitentiary
  27. Edmund Casimir Szoka, President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State
  28. Jean-Louis Tauran, Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives

Italy

  1. Ennio Antonelli, Archbishop of Florence
  2. Giacomo Biffi, Archbishop Emeritus of Bologna
  3. Tarcisio Bertone, SDB, Archbishop of Genoa
  4. Marco Cé, Patriarch Emeritus of Venice
  5. Salvatore De Giorgi, Archbishop of Palermo
  6. Michele Giordano, Archbishop of Naples
  7. Carlo Maria Martini, SJ, Archbishop Emeritus of Milan
  8. Severino Poletto, Archbishop of Turin
  9. Camillo Ruini, Vicar General of Rome
  10. Angelo Scola, Patriarch of Venice
  11. Dionigi Tettamanzi, Archbishop of Milan

Other European

  1. Francisco Álvarez Martínez, Archbishop Emeritus of Toledo, Spain
  2. Carlos Amigo Vallejo OFM, Archbishop of Seville, Spain
  3. Audrys Juozas Bačkis, Archbishop of Vilnius, Lithuania
  4. Philippe Barbarin, Archbishop of Lyon-Vienne, France
  5. Josip Bozanić, Archbishop of Zagreb, Croatia
  6. Ricardo María Carles Gordó, Archbishop Emeritus of Barcelona, Spain
  7. Desmond Connell, Archbishop Emeritus of Dublin, Ireland
  8. José da Cruz Policarpo, Patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal
  9. Godfried Danneels, Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels, Belgium
  10. Péter Erdő, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary
  11. Józef Glemp, Archbishop of Warsaw, Poland
  12. Lubomyr Husar, Ukrainian Rite Major Archbishop of Lviv, Ukraine
  13. Marian Jaworski, Latin Rite Archbishop of Lviv, Ukraine
  14. Karl Lehmann, Bishop of Mainz, Germany
  15. Jean-Marie Lustiger, Archbishop Emeritus of Paris, France
  16. Franciszek Macharski, Archbishop of Kraków, Poland
  17. Joachim Meisner, Archbishop of Cologne, Germany
  18. Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster, England, United Kingdom
  19. Keith O'Brien, Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
  20. Bernard Panafieu, Archbishop of Marseille, France
  21. László Paskai, OFM, Archbishop Emeritus of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary
  22. Jānis Pujāts, Archbishop of Riga, Latvia
  23. Vinko Puljić, Archbishop of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  24. Antonio María Rouco Varela, Archbishop of Madrid, Spain
  25. Christoph Schönborn, OP, Archbishop of Vienna, Austria
  26. Henri Schwery, Archbishop Emeritus of Sitten, Switzerland
  27. Adrianus Johannes Simonis, Archbishop of Utrecht, Netherlands
  28. Georg Sterzinsky, Archbishop of Berlin, Germany
  29. Miloslav Vlk, Archbishop of Prague, Czech Republic
  30. Friedrich Wetter, Archbishop of Munich, Germany

North America

  1. Aloysius Ambrozic, Archbishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  2. Edward Egan, Archbishop of New York, New York, United States
  3. Francis George, OMI, Archbishop of Chicago, Illinois, United States
  4. William Keeler, Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland, United States
  5. Roger Mahony, Archbishop of Los Angeles, California, United States
  6. Adam Maida, Archbishop of Detroit, Michigan, United States
  7. Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop of Washington, District of Columbia, United States
  8. Marc Ouellet, PSS, Archbishop of Québec, Québec, Canada
  9. Justin Rigali, Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  10. Jean-Claude Turcotte, Archbishop of Montréal, Québec, Canada
  11. Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
  12. Miguel Obando y Bravo, SDB, Archbishop Emeritus of Managua, Nicaragua
  13. Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Archbishop of Havana, Cuba
  14. Rodolfo Quezada Toruño, Archbishop of Guatemala City, Guatemala
  15. Norberto Rivera Carrera, Archbishop of Mexico City, Mexico
  16. Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, SDB, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras
  17. Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, Archbishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

South America

  1. Geraldo Majella Agnelo, Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
  2. Jorge Bergoglio, SJ, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina (runner-up, later elected in 2013, and took the name Francis)
  3. Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Archbishop of Lima, Peru
  4. Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, Schönstatt, Archbishop of Santiago, Chile
  5. José Freire Falcão, Archbishop Emeritus of Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil
  6. Cláudio Hummes, OFM, Archbishop of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
  7. Pedro Rubiano Sáenz, Archbishop of Bogotá, Colombia
  8. Eusébio Scheid, SCI, Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  9. Julio Terrazas Sandoval, C.Ss.R, Archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia

Africa

  1. Bernard Agré, Archbishop of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
  2. Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, CICM, Archbishop of Kinshasa, Dem. Rep. of the Congo
  3. Wilfrid Fox Napier, OFM, Archbishop of Durban, South Africa
  4. Anthony Olubumni Okogie, Archbishop of Lagos, Nigeria
  5. Polycarp Pengo, Archbishop of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
  6. Armand Razafindratandra, Archbishop of Antananarivo, Madagascar
  7. Christian Tumi, Archbishop of Douala, Cameroon
  8. Peter Turkson, Archbishop of Cape Coast, Ghana
  9. Emmanuel Wamala, Archbishop of Kampala, Uganda
  10. Gabriel Zubeir Wako, Archbishop of Khartoum, Sudan

Asia, including the Middle East

  1. Julius Riyadi Darmaatmadja, SJ, Archbishop of Jakarta, Indonesia
  2. Ivan Dias, Archbishop of Bombay, India
  3. Michael Kitbunchu, Archbishop of Bangkok, Thailand
  4. Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn, Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City, Viêt Nam
  5. Peter Shirayanagi, Archbishop Emeritus of Tokyo, Japan
  6. Telesphore Toppo, Archbishop of Ranchi, India
  7. Ricardo Vidal, Archbishop of Cebu, Philippines
  8. Mar Varkey Vithayathil, C.SS.R., Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly, India

Oceania

  1. George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, Australia
  2. Thomas Stafford Williams, Archbishop Emeritus of Wellington, New Zealand

References

Cardinal electors for the papal conclave, 2005 Wikipedia