Complete List of Catholic Cardinals
|
Name |
Country |
Order |
consistory |
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Giovanni Battista Re |
Italy |
CB |
21 Feb 2001 |
|
Leonardo Sandri |
Argentina |
CB |
24 Nov 2007 |
|
Francis Arinze |
Nigeria |
CB |
25 May 1985 |
|
Tarcisio Bertone SDB |
Italy |
CB |
21 Oct 2003 |
|
José Saraiva Martins CMF |
Portugal |
CB |
21 Feb 2001 |
|
Pietro Parolin |
Italy |
CB |
22 Feb 2014 |
|
Marc Ouellet PSS |
Canada |
CB |
21 Oct 2003 |
|
Fernando Filoni |
Italy |
CB |
18 Feb 2012 |
|
Beniamino Stella |
Italy |
CB |
22 Feb 2014 |
|
Luis Antonio Tagle |
Philippines |
CB |
24 Nov 2012 |
|
Robert Francis Prevost OSA |
United States |
CB |
30 Sep 2023 |
|
Bechara Boutros al-Rahi OMM |
Lebanon |
CB |
24 Nov 2012 |
|
Louis Raphaël I Sako |
Iraq |
CB |
28 Jun 2018 |
|
Michael Michai Kitbunchu |
Thailand |
CP |
2 Feb 1983 |
|
Paul Poupard |
France |
CP |
25 May 1985 |
|
Friedrich Wetter |
Germany |
CP |
25 May 1985 |
|
Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez |
Dominican Republic |
CP |
28 Jun 1991 |
|
Roger Mahony |
United States |
CP |
28 Jun 1991 |
|
Camillo Ruini |
Italy |
CP |
28 Jun 1991 |
|
Julius Darmaatmadja SJ |
Indonesia |
CP |
26 Nov 1994 |
|
Emmanuel Wamala |
Uganda |
CP |
26 Nov 1994 |
|
Adam Maida |
United States |
CP |
26 Nov 1994 |
|
Vinko Puljić |
Bosnia and Herzegovina |
CP |
26 Nov 1994 |
|
Juan Sandoval Íñiguez |
Mexico |
CP |
26 Nov 1994 |
|
James Stafford |
United States |
CP |
21 Feb 1998 |
|
Salvatore De Giorgi |
Italy |
CP |
21 Feb 1998 |
|
Antonio María Rouco Varela |
Spain |
CP |
21 Feb 1998 |
|
Polycarp Pengo |
Tanzania |
CP |
21 Feb 1998 |
|
Christoph Schönborn OP |
Austria |
CP |
21 Feb 1998 |
|
Norberto Rivera Carrera |
Mexico |
CP |
21 Feb 1998 |
|
Jānis Pujats |
Latvia |
CP |
21 Feb 1998 |
|
Crescenzio Sepe |
Italy |
CP |
21 Feb 2001 |
|
Walter Kasper |
Germany |
CP |
21 Feb 2001 |
|
Audrys Bačkis |
Lithuania |
CP |
21 Feb 2001 |
|
Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa ISch |
Chile |
CP |
21 Feb 2001 |
|
Wilfrid Napier OFM |
South Africa |
CP |
21 Feb 2001 |
|
Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga SDB |
Honduras |
CP |
21 Feb 2001 |
|
Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne |
Peru |
CP |
21 Feb 2001 |
|
Julián Herranz Casado |
Spain |
CP |
21 Oct 2003 |
|
Angelo Scola |
Italy |
CP |
21 Oct 2003 |
|
Anthony Olubunmi Okogie |
Nigeria |
CP |
21 Oct 2003 |
|
Gabriel Zubeir Wako |
Sudan |
CP |
21 Oct 2003 |
|
Justin Rigali |
United States |
CP |
21 Oct 2003 |
|
Ennio Antonelli |
Italy |
CP |
21 Oct 2003 |
|
Peter Turkson |
Ghana |
CP |
21 Oct 2003 |
|
Josip Bozanić |
Croatia |
CP |
21 Oct 2003 |
|
Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn |
Vietnam |
CP |
21 Oct 2003 |
|
Philippe Barbarin |
France |
CP |
21 Oct 2003 |
|
Péter Erdő |
Hungary |
CP |
21 Oct 2003 |
|
Franc Rodé CM |
Slovenia |
CP |
24 Mar 2006 |
|
Agostino Vallini |
Italy |
CP |
24 Mar 2006 |
|
Gaudencio Borbon Rosales |
Philippines |
CP |
24 Mar 2006 |
|
Jean-Pierre Ricard |
France |
CP |
24 Mar 2006 |
|
Antonio Cañizares Llovera |
Spain |
CP |
24 Mar 2006 |
|
Seán Patrick O'Malley OFMCap |
United States |
CP |
24 Mar 2006 |
|
Stanisław Dziwisz |
Poland |
CP |
24 Mar 2006 |
|
Joseph Zen Ze-kiun SDB |
China (Hong Kong) |
CP |
24 Mar 2006 |
|
Giovanni Lajolo |
Italy |
CP |
24 Nov 2007 |
|
Angelo Comastri |
Italy |
CP |
24 Nov 2007 |
|
Stanisław Ryłko |
Poland |
CP |
24 Nov 2007 |
|
Raffaele Farina SDB |
Italy |
CP |
24 Nov 2007 |
|
Seán Brady |
Ireland |
CP |
24 Nov 2007 |
|
Lluís Martínez i Sistach |
Spain |
CP |
24 Nov 2007 |
|
André Vingt-Trois |
France |
CP |
24 Nov 2007 |
|
Angelo Bagnasco |
Italy |
CP |
24 Nov 2007 |
|
Théodore-Adrien Sarr |
Senegal |
CP |
24 Nov 2007 |
|
Oswald Gracias |
India |
CP |
24 Nov 2007 |
|
Francisco Robles Ortega |
Mexico |
CP |
24 Nov 2007 |
|
Daniel DiNardo |
United States |
CP |
24 Nov 2007 |
|
Odilo Scherer |
Brazil |
CP |
24 Nov 2007 |
|
John Njue |
Kenya |
CP |
24 Nov 2007 |
|
Estanislao Esteban Karlic |
Argentina |
CP |
24 Nov 2007 |
|
Robert Sarah |
Guinea |
CP |
20 Nov 2010 |
|
Francesco Monterisi |
Italy |
CP |
20 Nov 2010 |
|
Raymond Leo Burke |
United States |
CP |
20 Nov 2010 |
|
Kurt Koch |
Switzerland |
CP |
20 Nov 2010 |
|
Mauro Piacenza |
Italy |
CP |
20 Nov 2010 |
|
Gianfranco Ravasi |
Italy |
CP |
20 Nov 2010 |
|
Paolo Romeo |
Italy |
CP |
20 Nov 2010 |
|
Donald Wuerl |
United States |
CP |
20 Nov 2010 |
|
Raymundo Damasceno Assis |
Brazil |
CP |
20 Nov 2010 |
|
Kazimierz Nycz |
Poland |
CP |
20 Nov 2010 |
|
Malcolm Ranjith |
Sri Lanka |
CP |
20 Nov 2010 |
|
Reinhard Marx |
Germany |
CP |
20 Nov 2010 |
|
Walter Brandmüller |
Germany |
CP |
20 Nov 2010 |
|
Manuel Monteiro de Castro |
Portugal |
CP |
18 Feb 2012 |
|
Santos Abril y Castelló |
Spain |
CP |
18 Feb 2012 |
|
Antonio Maria Vegliò |
Italy |
CP |
18 Feb 2012 |
|
Giuseppe Bertello |
Italy |
CP |
18 Feb 2012 |
|
Francesco Coccopalmerio |
Italy |
CP |
18 Feb 2012 |
|
João Braz de Aviz |
Brazil |
CP |
18 Feb 2012 |
|
Edwin Frederick O'Brien |
United States |
CP |
18 Feb 2012 |
|
Domenico Calcagno |
Italy |
CP |
18 Feb 2012 |
|
Giuseppe Versaldi |
Italy |
CP |
18 Feb 2012 |
|
George Alencherry |
India |
CP |
18 Feb 2012 |
|
Thomas Collins |
Canada |
CP |
18 Feb 2012 |
|
Dominik Duka OP |
Czech Republic |
CP |
18 Feb 2012 |
|
Wim Eijk |
Netherlands |
CP |
18 Feb 2012 |
|
Giuseppe Betori |
Italy |
CP |
18 Feb 2012 |
|
Timothy M. Dolan |
United States |
CP |
18 Feb 2012 |
|
Rainer Woelki |
Germany |
CP |
18 Feb 2012 |
|
John Tong Hon |
China (Hong Kong) |
CP |
18 Feb 2012 |
|
Lucian Mureșan |
Romania |
CP |
18 Feb 2012 |
|
James Michael Harvey |
United States |
CP |
24 Nov 2012 |
|
Baselios Cleemis |
India |
CP |
24 Nov 2012 |
|
John Onaiyekan |
Nigeria |
CP |
24 Nov 2012 |
|
Rubén Salazar Gómez |
Colombia |
CP |
24 Nov 2012 |
|
Lorenzo Baldisseri |
Italy |
CP |
22 Feb 2014 |
|
Gerhard Ludwig Müller |
Germany |
CP |
22 Feb 2014 |
|
Vincent Nichols |
United Kingdom |
CP |
22 Feb 2014 |
|
Leopoldo Brenes |
Nicaragua |
CP |
22 Feb 2014 |
|
Gérald Lacroix ISPX |
Canada |
CP |
22 Feb 2014 |
|
Jean-Pierre Kutwa |
Ivory Coast |
CP |
22 Feb 2014 |
|
Orani João Tempesta OCist |
Brazil |
CP |
22 Feb 2014 |
|
Gualtiero Bassetti |
Italy |
CP |
22 Feb 2014 |
|
Mario Aurelio Poli |
Argentina |
CP |
22 Feb 2014 |
|
Andrew Yeom Soo-jung |
South Korea |
CP |
22 Feb 2014 |
|
Ricardo Ezzati SDB |
Chile |
CP |
22 Feb 2014 |
|
Philippe Ouédraogo |
Burkina Faso |
CP |
22 Feb 2014 |
|
Orlando Quevedo OMI |
Philippines |
CP |
22 Feb 2014 |
|
Chibly Langlois |
Haiti |
CP |
22 Feb 2014 |
|
Manuel Clemente |
Portugal |
CP |
14 Feb 2015 |
|
Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel CM |
Ethiopia |
CP |
14 Feb 2015 |
|
John Dew |
New Zealand |
CP |
14 Feb 2015 |
|
Edoardo Menichelli |
Italy |
CP |
14 Feb 2015 |
|
Pierre Nguyễn Văn Nhơn |
Vietnam |
CP |
14 Feb 2015 |
|
Alberto Suárez Inda |
Mexico |
CP |
14 Feb 2015 |
|
Charles Maung Bo SDB |
Myanmar |
CP |
14 Feb 2015 |
|
Kriengsak Kovitvanit |
Thailand |
CP |
14 Feb 2015 |
|
Francesco Montenegro |
Italy |
CP |
14 Feb 2015 |
|
Daniel Sturla SDB |
Uruguay |
CP |
14 Feb 2015 |
|
Ricardo Blázquez |
Spain |
CP |
14 Feb 2015 |
|
José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán OAR |
Panama |
CP |
14 Feb 2015 |
|
Arlindo Gomes Furtado |
Cape Verde |
CP |
14 Feb 2015 |
|
Soane Patita Paini Mafi |
Tonga |
CP |
14 Feb 2015 |
|
Luis Héctor Villalba |
Argentina |
CP |
14 Feb 2015 |
|
Júlio Duarte Langa |
Mozambique |
CP |
14 Feb 2015 |
|
Dieudonné Nzapalainga CSSp |
Central African Republic |
CP |
19 Nov 2016 |
|
Carlos Osoro Sierra |
Spain |
CP |
19 Nov 2016 |
|
Sérgio da Rocha |
Brazil |
CP |
19 Nov 2016 |
|
Blase J. Cupich |
United States |
CP |
19 Nov 2016 |
|
Patrick D'Rozario CSC |
Bangladesh |
CP |
19 Nov 2016 |
|
Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo |
Venezuela |
CP |
19 Nov 2016 |
|
Jozef De Kesel |
Belgium |
CP |
19 Nov 2016 |
|
Maurice Piat CSSp |
Mauritius |
CP |
19 Nov 2016 |
|
Carlos Aguiar Retes |
Mexico |
CP |
19 Nov 2016 |
|
John Ribat MSC |
Papua New Guinea |
CP |
19 Nov 2016 |
|
Joseph W. Tobin CSsR |
United States |
CP |
19 Nov 2016 |
|
Jean Zerbo |
Mali |
CP |
28 Jun 2017 |
|
Juan José Omella |
Spain |
CP |
28 Jun 2017 |
|
Anders Arborelius OCD |
Sweden |
CP |
28 Jun 2017 |
|
Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun IVD |
Laos |
CP |
28 Jun 2017 |
|
Gregorio Rosa Chávez |
El Salvador |
CP |
28 Jun 2017 |
|
Angelo De Donatis |
Italy |
CP |
28 Jun 2018 |
|
Joseph Coutts |
Pakistan |
CP |
28 Jun 2018 |
|
António Marto |
Portugal |
CP |
28 Jun 2018 |
|
Pedro Barreto SJ |
Peru |
CP |
28 Jun 2018 |
|
Désiré Tsarahazana |
Madagascar |
CP |
28 Jun 2018 |
|
Giuseppe Petrocchi |
Italy |
CP |
28 Jun 2018 |
|
Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda |
Japan |
CP |
28 Jun 2018 |
|
Toribio Ticona Porco |
Bolivia |
CP |
28 Jun 2018 |
|
Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo |
Indonesia |
CP |
5 Oct 2019 |
|
Juan García Rodríguez |
Cuba |
CP |
5 Oct 2019 |
|
Fridolin Ambongo Besungu OFMCap |
Democratic Republic of the Congo |
CP |
5 Oct 2019 |
|
Jean-Claude Hollerich SJ |
Luxembourg |
CP |
5 Oct 2019 |
|
Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri |
Guatemala |
CP |
5 Oct 2019 |
|
Matteo Zuppi |
Italy |
CP |
5 Oct 2019 |
|
Cristóbal López Romero SDB |
Morocco |
CP |
5 Oct 2019 |
|
Sigitas Tamkevičius SJ |
Lithuania |
CP |
5 Oct 2019 |
|
Antoine Kambanda |
Rwanda |
CP |
28 Nov 2020 |
|
Wilton Daniel Gregory |
United States |
CP |
28 Nov 2020 |
|
Jose Advincula OP |
Philippines |
CP |
28 Nov 2020 |
|
Celestino Aós Braco OFMCap |
Chile |
CP |
28 Nov 2020 |
|
Augusto Paolo Lojudice |
Italy |
CP |
28 Nov 2020 |
|
Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel |
Mexico |
CP |
28 Nov 2020 |
|
Jean-Marc Aveline |
France |
CP |
27 Aug 2022 |
|
Peter Okpaleke |
Nigeria |
CP |
27 Aug 2022 |
|
Leonardo Ulrich Steiner OFM |
Brazil |
CP |
27 Aug 2022 |
|
Filipe Neri Ferrão |
India |
CP |
27 Aug 2022 |
|
Robert W. McElroy |
United States |
CP |
27 Aug 2022 |
|
Virgílio do Carmo da Silva SDB |
East Timor |
CP |
27 Aug 2022 |
|
Oscar Cantoni |
Italy |
CP |
27 Aug 2022 |
|
Anthony Poola |
India |
CP |
27 Aug 2022 |
|
Paulo Cezar Costa |
Brazil |
CP |
27 Aug 2022 |
|
William Goh |
Singapore |
CP |
27 Aug 2022 |
|
Adalberto Martínez Flores |
Paraguay |
CP |
27 Aug 2022 |
|
Giorgio Marengo IMC |
Mongolia |
CP |
27 Aug 2022 |
|
Jorge Enrique Jiménez Carvajal CJM |
Colombia |
CP |
27 Aug 2022 |
|
Arrigo Miglio |
Italy |
CP |
27 Aug 2022 |
|
Pierbattista Pizzaballa OFM |
Jerusalem |
CP |
30 Sep 2023 |
|
Stephen Brislin |
South Africa |
CP |
30 Sep 2023 |
|
Ángel Sixto Rossi SJ |
Argentina |
CP |
30 Sep 2023 |
|
Luis José Rueda Aparicio |
Colombia |
CP |
30 Sep 2023 |
|
Grzegorz Ryś |
Poland |
CP |
30 Sep 2023 |
|
Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla |
South Sudan |
CP |
30 Sep 2023 |
|
José Cobo Cano |
Spain |
CP |
30 Sep 2023 |
|
Protase Rugambwa |
Tanzania |
CP |
30 Sep 2023 |
|
Sebastian Francis |
Malaysia |
CP |
30 Sep 2023 |
|
Stephen Chow Sau-yan SJ |
China (Hong Kong) |
CP |
30 Sep 2023 |
|
François-Xavier Bustillo OFMConv |
France |
CP |
30 Sep 2023 |
|
Américo Aguiar |
Portugal |
CP |
30 Sep 2023 |
|
Diego Rafael Padrón Sánchez |
Venezuela |
CP |
30 Sep 2023 |
|
Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio |
Peru |
CP |
7 Dec 2024 |
|
Vicente Bokalic Iglic CM |
Argentina |
CP |
7 Dec 2024 |
|
Luis Cabrera Herrera OFM |
Ecuador |
CP |
7 Dec 2024 |
|
Fernando Chomalí Garib |
Chile |
CP |
7 Dec 2024 |
|
Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi SVD |
Japan |
CP |
7 Dec 2024 |
|
Pablo Virgilio David |
Philippines |
CP |
7 Dec 2024 |
|
Ladislav Nemet SVD |
Serbia |
CP |
7 Dec 2024 |
|
Jaime Spengler OFM |
Brazil |
CP |
7 Dec 2024 |
|
Ignace Bessi Dogbo |
Ivory Coast |
CP |
7 Dec 2024 |
|
Jean-Paul Vesco OP |
Algeria |
CP |
7 Dec 2024 |
|
Dominique Mathieu OFMConv |
Iran |
CP |
7 Dec 2024 |
|
Roberto Repole |
Italy |
CP |
7 Dec 2024 |
|
Baldassare Reina |
Italy |
CP |
7 Dec 2024 |
|
Frank Leo |
Canada |
CP |
7 Dec 2024 |
|
Mykola Bychok CSsR |
Australia |
CP |
7 Dec 2024 |
|
Domenico Battaglia |
Italy |
CP |
7 Dec 2024 |
|
Dominique Mamberti |
France |
CD |
14 Feb 2015 |
|
Mario Zenari |
Italy |
CD |
19 Nov 2016 |
|
Kevin Farrell |
United States |
CD |
19 Nov 2016 |
|
Ernest Simoni |
Albania |
CD |
19 Nov 2016 |
|
Luis Ladaria Ferrer SJ |
Spain |
CD |
28 Jun 2018 |
|
Giovanni Angelo Becciu |
Italy |
CD |
28 Jun 2018 |
|
Konrad Krajewski |
Poland |
CD |
28 Jun 2018 |
|
Aquilino Bocos Merino CMF |
Spain |
CD |
28 Jun 2018 |
|
José Tolentino de Mendonça |
Portugal |
CD |
5 Oct 2019 |
|
Michael Czerny SJ |
Canada |
CD |
5 Oct 2019 |
|
Michael Fitzgerald MAfr |
United Kingdom |
CD |
5 Oct 2019 |
|
Mario Grech |
Malta |
CD |
28 Nov 2020 |
|
Marcello Semeraro |
Italy |
CD |
28 Nov 2020 |
|
Mauro Gambetti OFMConv |
Italy |
CD |
28 Nov 2020 |
|
Silvano Maria Tomasi CS |
Italy |
CD |
28 Nov 2020 |
|
Raniero Cantalamessa OFMCap |
Italy |
CD |
28 Nov 2020 |
|
Enrico Feroci |
Italy |
CD |
28 Nov 2020 |
|
Arthur Roche |
United Kingdom |
CD |
27 Aug 2022 |
|
Lazarus You Heung-sik |
South Korea |
CD |
27 Aug 2022 |
|
Fernando Vérgez Alzaga LC |
Spain |
CD |
27 Aug 2022 |
|
Gianfranco Ghirlanda SJ |
Italy |
CD |
27 Aug 2022 |
|
Fortunato Frezza |
Italy |
CD |
27 Aug 2022 |
|
Claudio Gugerotti |
Italy |
CD |
30 Sep 2023 |
|
Víctor Manuel Fernández |
Argentina |
CD |
30 Sep 2023 |
|
Emil Paul Tscherrig |
Switzerland |
CD |
30 Sep 2023 |
|
Christophe Pierre |
France |
CD |
30 Sep 2023 |
|
Ángel Fernández Artime SDB |
Spain |
CD |
30 Sep 2023 |
|
Agostino Marchetto |
Italy |
CD |
30 Sep 2023 |
|
Luis Pascual Dri OFMCap |
Argentina |
CD |
30 Sep 2023 |
|
Angelo Acerbi |
Italy |
CD |
7 Dec 2024 |
|
Rolandas Makrickas |
Lithuania |
CD |
7 Dec 2024 |
|
Timothy Radcliffe OP |
United Kingdom |
CD |
7 Dec 2024 |
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Fabio Baggio CS |
Italy |
CD |
7 Dec 2024 |
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George Koovakad |
India |
CD |
7 Dec 2024 |
List of Catholic Cardinals Note: CB = Cardinal Bishop, CP = Cardinal Priest, CD = Cardinal Deacon. “Elector” indicates eligibility to vote in a conclave.
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- The largest group, cardinal priests are often archbishops of major dioceses, assigned titular churches in Rome. Luis Antonio Tagle, a key figure in the list of cardinals, belongs to this order.Cardinal Deacons (CD)
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The list of Catholic cardinals embodies the Church’s mission, blending tradition with modern leadership. Listandwiki invites you to explore this list of cardinals and discover their vital contributions!
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The list of Catholic cardinals is more than a roster—it’s a snapshot of the Church’s global leadership. At Listandwiki, we believe understanding the list of cardinals helps readers grasp the Church’s direction, from addressing social issues to fostering unity. With 135 electors ready for the next conclave, the list of Catholic cardinals shapes the future of Catholicism.
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