Living Cardinals

Order of Bishops (12)

Cardinal-Bishops follow the precedence listed below:

Cardinal Dean:Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re (92)Re (Cardinal-Bishop since 2002.10.01)
Cardinal Vice-Dean:Cardinal Leonardo Sandri (82)Sandri (Cardinal-Bishop since 2018.06.28)
Other Roman-Rite Cardinal-Bishops:(precedence is determined by the date of promotion to Cardinal-Bishop)
Cardinal Francis Arinze (93)Arinze (2005.04.25)
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B. (91)Bertone (2008.05.10)
Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, C.M.F. (94)Saraiva Martins (2009.02.24)
Cardinal Pietro Parolin (71)Parolin (2018.06.28)
Cardinal Marc Ouellet, P.S.S. (81)Ouellet (2018.06.28)
Cardinal Fernando Filoni (80)Filoni (2018.06.28)
Cardinal Beniamino Stella (84)Stella (2020.05.01)
Cardinal Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle (68)Tagle (2020.05.01)
Eastern-Rite Cardinal Patriarchs:Cardinal Béchara Pierre Raï, O.M.M. (86)Raï (2012.11.24)
Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako (77)Sako (2018.06.28)
Order of Priests (198)

Within the order of Cardinal-Priests, precedence is determined by date of creation and secondarily by order of announcement on the biglietto.

1983.02.02:Cardinal Michael Michai Kitbunchu (97)Kitbunchu (Protopriest)
1985.05.25:Cardinal Paul Poupard (95)Poupard, Cardinal Friedrich Wetter (98)Wetter
1991.06.28:Cardinal Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez (89)López Rodríguez, Cardinal Roger Michael Mahony (90)Mahony, Cardinal Camillo Ruini (95)Ruini
1994.11.26:Cardinal Julius Riyadi Darmaatmadja, S.J. (91)Darmaatmadja, Cardinal Emmanuel Wamala (99)Wamala, Cardinal Adam Joseph Maida (96)Maida, Cardinal Vinko Puljić (80)Puljić, Cardinal Juan Sandoval Íñiguez (93)Sandoval Íñiguez
1998.02.21:Cardinal James Francis Stafford (93)Stafford, Cardinal Salvatore De Giorgi (95)De Giorgi, Cardinal Antonio María Rouco Varela (89)Rouco Varela, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, O.P. (81)Schönborn, Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera (83)Rivera Carrera, Cardinal Jānis Pujats (95)Pujats
2001.02.21:Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe (82)Sepe, Cardinal Walter Kasper (93)Kasper, Cardinal Audrys Juozas Bačkis (89)Bačkis, Cardinal Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, I.Sch. (92)Errázuriz Ossa, Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, O.F.M. (85)Napier, Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, S.D.B. (83)Rodríguez Maradiaga, Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Opus Dei (82)Cipriani Thorne
2003.10.21:Cardinal Julián Herranz Casado, Opus Dei (96)Herranz Casado, Cardinal Angelo Scola (84)Scola, Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie (89)Okogie, Cardinal Gabriel Zubeir Wako (85)Zubeir Wako, Cardinal Justin Francis Rigali (90)Rigali, Cardinal Ennio Antonelli (89)Antonelli, Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson (77)Turkson, Cardinal Josip Bozanić (77)Bozanić, Cardinal Philippe Christian Ignace Marie Barbarin (75)Barbarin, Cardinal Péter Erdő (73)Erdő
2006.03.24:Cardinal Franc Rode, C.M. (91)Rode, Cardinal Agostino Vallini (85)Vallini, Cardinal Gaudencio Borbon Rosales (93)Rosales, Cardinal Jean-Pierre Bernard Ricard (81)Ricard, Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera (80)Cañizares Llovera, Cardinal Seán Patrick O’Malley, O.F.M. Cap. (81)O’Malley, Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz (86)Dziwisz, Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, S.D.B. (94)Zen Ze-kiun
2007.11.24:Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo (91)Lajolo, Cardinal Angelo Comastri (82)Comastri, Cardinal Stanisław Ryłko (80)Ryłko, Cardinal Raffaele Farina, S.D.B. (92)Farina, Cardinal Seán Baptist Brady (86)Brady, Cardinal Lluís Martínez Sistach (88)Martínez Sistach, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco (83)Bagnasco, Cardinal Théodore-Adrien Sarr (89)Sarr, Cardinal Oswald Gracias (81)Gracias, Cardinal José Francisco Robles Ortega (77)Robles Ortega, Cardinal Daniel Nicholas DiNardo (76)DiNardo, Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer (76)Scherer, Cardinal John Njue (80)Njue
2010.11.20:Cardinal Robert Sarah (80)Sarah, Cardinal Francesco Monterisi (91)Monterisi, Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke (77)Burke, Cardinal Kurt Koch (76)Koch, Cardinal Mauro Piacenza (81)Piacenza, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi (83)Ravasi, Cardinal Paolo Romeo (88)Romeo, Cardinal Donald William Wuerl (85)Wuerl, Cardinal Raymundo Damasceno Assis (89)Assis, Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz (76)Nycz, Cardinal Albert Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige Don (78)Ranjith Patabendige Don, Cardinal Reinhard Marx (72)Marx, Cardinal Walter Brandmüller (97)Brandmüller
2012.02.18:Cardinal Manuel Monteiro de Castro (88)Monteiro de Castro, Cardinal Santos Abril y Castelló (90)Abril y Castelló, Cardinal Antonio Maria Vegliò (88)Vegliò, Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello (83)Bertello, Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio (88)Coccopalmerio, Cardinal João Bráz de Aviz (78)Bráz de Aviz, Cardinal Edwin Frederick O’Brien (87)O’Brien, Cardinal Domenico Calcagno (83)Calcagno, Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi (82)Versaldi, Cardinal George Alencherry (80)Alencherry, Cardinal Thomas Christopher Collins (79)Collins, Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk (72)Eijk, Cardinal Giuseppe Betori (79)Betori, Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan (76)Dolan, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki (69)Woelki, Cardinal John Tong Hon (86)Tong Hon
2012.11.24:Cardinal James Michael Harvey (76)Harvey, Cardinal Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal (66)Thottunkal, Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan (82)Onaiyekan, Cardinal Rubén Salazar Gómez (83)Salazar Gómez
2014.02.22:Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri (85)Baldisseri, Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller (78)Müller, Cardinal Vincent Gerard Nichols (80)Nichols, Cardinal Leopoldo José Brenes Solórzano (77)Brenes Solórzano, Cardinal Gérald Cyprien Lacroix, I.S.P.X. (68)Lacroix, Cardinal Jean-Pierre Kutwa (80)Kutwa, Cardinal Orani João Tempesta, O. Cist. (75)Tempesta, Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti (84)Bassetti, Cardinal Mario Aurelio Poli (78)Poli, Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung (82)Yeom Soo-jung, Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, S.D.B. (84)Ezzati Andrello, Cardinal Philippe Nakellentuba Ouédraogo (80)Ouédraogo, Cardinal Orlando Beltran Quevedo, O.M.I. (87)Quevedo, Cardinal Chibly Langlois (67)Langlois
2015.02.14:Cardinal Manuel José Macário do Nascimento Clemente (77)Macário do Nascimento Clemente, Cardinal Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, C.M. (77)Souraphiel, Cardinal John Atcherley Dew (77)Dew, Cardinal Pierre Nguyễn Văn Nhơn (88)Nguyễn Văn Nhơn, Cardinal Alberto Suárez Inda (87)Suárez Inda, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, S.D.B. (77)Bo, Cardinal Francis Xavier Kriengsak Kovithavanij (76)Kovithavanij, Cardinal Francesco Montenegro (79)Montenegro, Cardinal Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet, S.D.B. (66)Sturla Berhouet, Cardinal Ricardo Blázquez Pérez (84)Blázquez Pérez, Cardinal José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán, O.A.R. (82)Lacunza Maestrojuán, Cardinal Arlindo Gomes Furtado (76)Gomes Furtado, Cardinal Soane Patita Paini Mafi (64)Mafi, Cardinal Luis Héctor Villalba (91)Villalba, Cardinal Júlio Duarte Langa (98)Langa
2016.11.19:Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga, C.S.Sp. (59)Nzapalainga, Cardinal Carlos Osoro Sierra (80)Osoro Sierra, Cardinal Sérgio da Rocha (66)da Rocha, Cardinal Blase Joseph Cupich (77)Cupich, Cardinal Patrick D’Rozario, C.S.C. (82)D’Rozario, Cardinal Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo (81)Porras Cardozo, Cardinal Jozef De Kesel (78)De Kesel, Cardinal Maurice Piat, C.S.Sp. (84)Piat, Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes (76)Aguiar Retes, Cardinal John Ribat, M.S.C. (69)Ribat, Cardinal Joseph William Tobin, C.SS.R. (73)Tobin
2017.06.28:Cardinal Jean Zerbo (82)Zerbo, Cardinal Juan José Omella Omella (79)Omella Omella, Cardinal Anders Arborelius, O.C.D. (76)Arborelius, Cardinal Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, I.V.D. (82)Ling Mangkhanekhoun, Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez (83)Rosa Chávez
2018.06.28:Cardinal Angelo De Donatis (72)De Donatis, Cardinal Joseph Coutts (80)Coutts, Cardinal António Augusto dos Santos Marto (78)dos Santos Marto, Cardinal Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimeno, S.J. (82)Barreto Jimeno, Cardinal Désiré Tsarahazana (71)Tsarahazana, Cardinal Giuseppe Petrocchi (77)Petrocchi, Cardinal Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda (77)Maeda, Cardinal Toribio Ticona Porco (88)Ticona Porco
2019.10.05:Cardinal Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo (75)Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo, Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García Rodríguez (77)García Rodríguez, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, O.F.M. Cap. (66)Ambongo Besungu, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, S.J. (67)Hollerich, Cardinal Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri (78)Ramazzini Imeri, Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi (70)Zuppi, Cardinal Cristóbal López Romero, S.D.B. (73)López Romero, Cardinal Sigitas Tamkevičius, S.J. (87)Tamkevičius
2020.11.28:Cardinal Antoine Kambanda (67)Kambanda, Cardinal Wilton Daniel Gregory (78)Gregory, Cardinal Jose Fuerte Advincula (74)Advincula, Cardinal Celestino Aós Braco, O.F.M. Cap. (81)Aós Braco, Cardinal Augusto Paolo Lojudice (61)Lojudice, Cardinal Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel (85)Arizmendi Esquivel
2022.08.27:Cardinal Jean-Marc Noël Aveline (67)Aveline, Cardinal Peter Ebere Okpaleke (63)Okpaleke, Cardinal Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, O.F.M. (75)Steiner, Cardinal Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão (73)Ferrão, Cardinal Robert Walter McElroy (72)McElroy, Cardinal Virgilio do Carmo da Silva, S.D.B. (58)da Silva, Cardinal Oscar Cantoni (75)Cantoni, Cardinal Anthony Poola (64)Poola, Cardinal Paulo Cezar Costa (58)Costa, Cardinal William Goh Seng Chye (68)Goh Seng Chye, Cardinal Adalberto Martínez Flores (74)Martínez Flores, Cardinal Giorgio Marengo, I.M.C. (51)Marengo, Cardinal Jorge Enrique Jiménez Carvajal, C.I.M. (84)Jiménez Carvajal, Cardinal Arrigo Miglio (83)Miglio
2023.09.30:Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, O.F.M. (60)Pizzaballa, Cardinal Stephen Brislin (69)Brislin, Cardinal Ángel Sixto Rossi, S.J. (67)Rossi, Cardinal Luis José Rueda Aparicio (64)Rueda Aparicio, Cardinal Grzegorz Ryś (62)Ryś, Cardinal Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla (62)Mulla, Cardinal José Cobo Cano (60)Cobo Cano, Cardinal Protase Rugambwa (65)Rugambwa, Cardinal Sebastian Francis (74)Francis, Cardinal Stephen Chow Sau-yan, S.J. (66)Chow Sau-yan, Cardinal François-Xavier Bustillo, O.F.M. Conv. (57)Bustillo, Cardinal Américo Manuel Alves Aguiar (52)Alves Aguiar, Cardinal Diego Rafael Padrón Sánchez (86)Padrón Sánchez
2024.12.07:Cardinal Carlos Gustavo Castillo Mattasoglio (76)Castillo Mattasoglio, Cardinal Vicente Bokalic Iglic, C.M. (73)Bokalic Iglic, Cardinal Luis Gerardo Cabrera Herrera, O.F.M. (70)Cabrera Herrera, Cardinal Fernando Natalio Chomalí Garib (68)Chomalí Garib, Cardinal Tarcisius Isao Kikuchi, S.V.D. (67)Kikuchi, Cardinal Pablo Virgilio Siongco David (67)David, Cardinal Ladislav Német, S.V.D. (69)Német, Cardinal Jaime Spengler, O.F.M. (65)Spengler, Cardinal Ignace Bessi Dogbo (64)Bessi Dogbo, Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco, O.P. (64)Vesco, Cardinal Dominique Joseph Mathieu, O.F.M. Conv. (62)Mathieu, Cardinal Roberto Repole (59)Repole, Cardinal Baldassare Reina (55)Reina, Cardinal Frank Leo (54)Leo, Cardinal Mykola Bychok, C.SS.R. (46)Bychok, Cardinal Domenico Battaglia (63)Battaglia
Order of Deacons (33)

Within the order of Cardinal-Deacons, precedence is determined by date of creation and secondarily by order of announcement on the biglietto.

2015.02.14:Cardinal Dominique François Joseph Mamberti (74)Mamberti (Protodeacon)
2016.11.19:Cardinal Mario Zenari (80)Zenari, Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell (78)Farrell, Cardinal Ernest Simoni (97)Simoni
2018.06.28:Cardinal Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, S.J. (81)Ladaria Ferrer, Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu (77)Becciu, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski (62)Krajewski, Cardinal Aquilino Bocos Merino, C.M.F. (87)Bocos Merino
2019.10.05:Cardinal José Tolentino Calaça de Mendonça (60)de Mendonça, Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J. (79)Czerny, Cardinal Michael Louis Fitzgerald, M. Afr. (88)Fitzgerald
2020.11.28:Cardinal Mario Grech (69)Grech, Cardinal Marcello Semeraro (78)Semeraro, Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, O.F.M. Conv. (60)Gambetti, Cardinal Silvano Maria Tomasi, C.S. (85)Tomasi, Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, O.F.M. Cap. (91)Cantalamessa, Cardinal Enrico Feroci (85)Feroci
2022.08.27:Cardinal Arthur Roche (76)Roche, Cardinal Lazzaro You Heung-sik (74)You Heung-sik, Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, L.C. (81)Vérgez Alzaga, Cardinal Gianfranco Ghirlanda, S.J. (83)Ghirlanda, Cardinal Fortunato Frezza (84)Frezza
2023.09.30:Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti (70)Gugerotti, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández (63)Fernández, Cardinal Emil Paul Tscherrig (79)Tscherrig, Cardinal Christophe Louis Yves Georges Pierre (80)Pierre, Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, S.D.B. (65)Fernández Artime, Cardinal Agostino Marchetto (85)Marchetto
2024.12.07:Cardinal Angelo Acerbi (100)Acerbi, Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas (54)Makrickas, Cardinal Timothy Peter Joseph Radcliffe, O.P. (80)Radcliffe, Cardinal Fabio Baggio, C.S. (61)Baggio, Cardinal George Jacob Koovakad (52)Koovakad

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