by John L. Allen Jr.
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New Cardinal Electors:
1. Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches;
2. Archbishop John Patrick Foley, Pro-Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem;
3. Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, President of the Pontifical Commission for the Governance of the Vatican City-State;
4. Archbishop Paul Joseph Cordes, President of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum";
5. Archbishop Angelo Comastri, Archpriest of the Vatican Basilica, Vicar General for the Vatican City-State and President of the Administration of St. Peter’s;
6. Archbishop Stanis?aw Ry?ko, President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity;
7. Archbishop Raffaele Farina, Head of the Vatican Archives and Library;
8. Archbishop Agustín García-Gasco Vicente of Valencia (Spain);
9. Archbishop Seán Baptist Brady of Armagh (Ireland);
10. Archbishop Lluís Martínez Sistach of Barcellona (Spain);
11. Archbishop André Vingt-Trois of Paris (France);
12. Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco of Genova (Italy);
13. Archbishop Théodore-Adrien Sarr of Dakar (Senegal);
14. Archbishop Oswald Gracias of Bombay (India);
15. Archbishop Francisco Robles Ortega of Monterrey (Mexico);
16. Archbishop Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston (USA);
17. Archbishop Odilio Pedro Scherer of São Paulo (Brazil);
18. Archbishop John Njue of Nairobi (Kenya).
Honorary Cardinals:
1. His Beatitude Emmanuel III Delly, Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans;
2. Archbishop Giovanni Coppa, emeritus Apostolic Nuncio to the Czech Republic;
3. Archbishop Estanislao Esteban Karlic, emeritus of Paraná (Argentina);
4. Fr. Urbano Navarrete, S.J., former rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University;
5. Fr. Umberto Betti, O.F.M., former rector of the Pontifical Lateran University.
