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25 October 2012

College of Cardinals (with new Designees): Notes, Statistics, and updated Charts

The Charts (Warning: PDF format)

The charts are:
  • Number of Cardinals (1585-2022; 1915-2022; and 1965-2022) 
  • Average Age (1585-2022; 1915-2022; and 1965-2022)
As of today:
  • 205 living Cardinals (116 Electors).
  • Youngest: Rainer Maria Cardinal Woelki (Archbishop of Berlin, Germany) at 56.2
  • Average Age (all): 78.3 years
  • Average Age (Electors Only): 72.3 years
  • Average Length of Service as Cardinal (all): 11.8 years
  • Average Length of Service as Cardinal (Electors Only): 7.5 years
As of 24 November 2012: (with new Cardinals added)
Note:
About the new class of Cardinal-Designates:
Future numbers, assuming no deaths or new creations of Cardinal-Electors:
  • By the end of 2012: 119 Cardinal-Electors
  • By the end of 2013: 109 Cardinal-Electors
  • By the end of 2014: 97 Cardinal-Electors
  • By the end of 2015: 92 Cardinal-Electors
  • By the end of 2016: 78 Cardinal-Electors
The last time 2 Consistories to create Cardinals were held in the same year was under Pope Pius XI in 1929 (July and December). He also did the same in 1923, 1925, 1926, and 1927.

The last Consistory to create Cardinals with 6 or fewer designees was under Pope Paul VI (actually his last one) - in June 1977 - just over a year before his death.

Among those named, was a young (50 years old) new (a month after his consecration) Archbishop of München und Freising {Munich}, Germany - named Joseph Ratzinger (better known now as Pope Benedict XVI).

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