Cardinals!!!

This morning Pope Benedict XVI announced that a consistory to create new cardinals will be held on 24 March 2006. The list below are the 15 newly designated future cardinals:

* Name, Title, Age
* Archbishop Agostino Vallini; Prefect of Apostolic Signatura, Roman Curia; 65.9
* Archbishop Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino; Archbishop of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela; 63.6
* Archbishop Gaudencio Borbon Rosales; Archbishop of Manila, Philippines; 73.6
* Archbishop Jean-Pierre Bernard Ricard; Archbishop of Bordeaux (-Bazas), France; 61.5
* Archbishop Antonio Cañizares Llovera; Archbishop of Toledo, Spain; 60.4
* Archbishop Nicholas Cheong Jin-Suk; Archbishop of Seoul, Korea (South); 74.3
* Archbishop Sean Patrick O'Malley, O.F.M. Cap.; Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 61.7
* Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz; Archbishop of Kraków {Cracow}, Poland; 66.9
* Archbishop Carlo Caffarra; Archbishop of Bologna, Italy; 67.8
* Bishop Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, S.D.B.; Bishop of Hong Kong [Xianggang], China; 74.2

Plus 3 that are over 80 and thus not eligible to vote in a conclave:

* Archbishop Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo; Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Italy; 80.6
* Archbishop Peter Proeku Dery; Archbishop Emeritus of Tamale, Ghana; 87.9
* Father Albert Vanhoye, S.J.; Secretary Emeritus of Pontifical Biblical Commission, Roman Curia; 82.7

See also this List of New Cardinals on the main site.