Cardinal electors for the papal conclave, 2013

The cardinal electors eligible to participate at the 2013 papal conclave were those cardinals under the age of 80 before the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI took effect on 28 February 2013. On 13 March 2013, the electors named Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio as Pope, taking the name Francis.

The following is a list of cardinal electors eligible and participating in the conclave. Cardinals are ranked in order of precedence, with cardinal bishops having highest precedence, followed by cardinal priests, then cardinal deacons; precedence within each group is determined by date of elevation to the cardinalate. Within the group of cardinal-bishops, precedence is determined by the date they were promoted to cardinal-bishops which may or may not be the same as the date of elevation to the cardinalate. Also within the order of cardinal-bishops the cardinals with title to the suburbicarian sees take precedence followed by the patriarchs of sui iuris Eastern Catholic Churches whose patriarchal sees serve as their cardinalatial sees.

Four cardinal-electors came from the Eastern Catholic Churches, the largest number since 1939 when Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni, Patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church participated as a cardinal-elector in the conclave of 1939 having been created a cardinal with the title of Cardinal-Priest of Ss. XII Apostoli in 1935. The four Eastern Catholic cardinal-electors at the 2013 conclave were Coptic Catholic Patriarch-Emeritus Antonios Naguib, Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi,Syro-Malabar Major Archbishop George Alencherry, and Syro-Malankara Major Archbishop Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal.

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