2023-07-13 13:28:00
July 13, 2023 / 6:28 a.m.
After the consistory on September 30, the College of Cardinals will be made up of 243 cardinals, many of them belonging to religious orders that contribute different charisms to the Catholic Church.
Specifically, the order of salesians is in first place with 11 cardinals. Among them are 5 cardinal electors: Virgílio do Carmo da Silva, Cristobal López Romero, Msgr. Daniel Fernando Sturla and the future Cardinal and Rector Major of the Salesians, Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime. It should be noted that all of them received the cardinal’s purple by Pope Francis.
Non-voters include Cardinal Angelo Amato, Tarcisio Bertone, Ricardo Ezzati, Raffaele Farina, Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga and Cardinal Joseph Zen.
In second place the Franciscans meet. Specifically, there are 17 cardinals with the right to vote in a possible conclave who belong to this religious order, between minor friars and Capuchins.
capuchins they include voters Fridolin Ambongo, Celestino Aos Braco and Sean Patrick O’Malley. The Friars Minor are represented by Cardinal Leonardo Ulrich Steiner and the future Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa.
Between the friars minor conventual there are Cardinal Mauro Gambetti and the future Cardinal Javier Bustillo. The non-voters are the Capuchin Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, the minor friar Wilfrid Fox Napier and the Capuchin Fray Pascual Dri, who will be created a cardinal on September 30 at the age of 96.
9 cardinals belong to the Society of Jesus6 of whom are under 80 years old: Cardinal Pedro Barreto Jimeno, Michael Czerny, Jean-Claude Hollerich, Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, the Argentine Ángel Rossi and the Chinese Stephen Chow Saw-Yan, who will receive the purple at the next consistory of September.
Los jesuitas no electores son el Cardenal Julius Daarmatmadja, Gianfranco Ghirlanda y Sigitas Tamkevicius.
within the augustinian cardinalsboth with the right to vote in the conclave, are the future Cardinal Mons. Robert Prevost and the Panamanian, but Spanish by birth, José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán.
There are also several Dominicans: the Austrian Christoph Schönborn and the non-elector Czech Dominik Duka.
To the Congregation of the Holy Spirit and the Immaculate Heart of Mary the Central African Dieudonné Nzapalainga and Maurice Piat belong. Of the order of Saint Lazarus are the Ethiopian Cardinal Berhaneyesus Souraphiel and Franc Rodè, without the right to vote.
Also there are 2 claretians: Cardinal Saraiva Martins and Bocos Merino, both over 80 years of age and, therefore, excluded for reasons of age from a future conclave.
The Carmelites also have a cardinal elector with the Swedish Anders Arborelius. Like the Comboni Missionaries, an order to which the Spanish Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso belongs.
From the Congregation of the Holy Cross He is Cardinal Patrick D’Rozario, who will be 80 years old the day after the Consistory. The Voluntas Dei Institute belongs to Cardinal Louis-Marie Mangkhanekhoun.
In addition, to the Consolata Missionaries the youngest of all belongs, Cardinal Giorgio Marengo. For his part, Cardinal Marc Ouellet is of the Sulpician order and Cardinal John Ribat of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart.
The Cistercian order is also represented in the College of Cardinals with Cardinal Orani Tempesta; the Redemptorists with Cardinal Joseph Tobin and the Legionaries of Christ with the Spanish Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga.
To the Work Don Calabria belongs to the Italian Eugenio Dal Corso and among the Missionaries of Africa, also known as white parents, is the Englishman Michael Fitzgerald.
To the congregation of the eudistas belongs to the Mexican Jorge Enrique Jiménez Carvajal and to the Oblates of Mary Immaculate the Filipino Orlando Quevedo.
Also, from the Lebanese Maronite Order He is Cardinal Béchara Boutros Raï, and Cardinal Silvano Maria Tomasi belongs to the Congregation of the Missionaries of Saint Charles (Scalabrinians).
Translated and adapted by Almudena Martínez-Bordiú. Originally posted on ACI Press.
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