The Catholic Church defines who will be the next Pope through a sympathetic and secular voting process known as “Conclave.”
Who participates in this method to choose a new head of state for the Vatican are the cardinals.
However, they are not all members of the so -called Cardinian College who are entitled to vote when entering the Sistine Chapel for the Papal Conclave.
The apostolic constitution “Universid Dominici Gregis”, promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 1996, points out that only 80 -year -old cardinals will only participate in the election and that there will be a limit of 120 voters.
The Vatican and PhD in Social Sciences from the Pontifical Gregorian University, based in Rome, Filipe Domingues, explained to CNN that this limit of voters should not be followed in the next conclave, as the Catholic Church currently has 135 cardinals under 80 and able to vote.
“It’s an indication to prevent the college from getting too big,” he said.
In the list of voters cardinals are seven Brazilian cardinals who must participate in the voting process to choose the next Pope.
Who are the Brazilian cardinals who will vote to elect the next Pope?
João Braz de Aviz
Cardinal João Braz de Aviz was born in the city of Mafra, Santa Catarina, on April 24, 1947.
He was ordained priest on November 26, 1972 for the Diocese of Apucarana. He has a degree in Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University and is a doctorate in Dogmatic Theology from the Pontifical Lateranense University.
He was Archbishop of Maringá, Paraná, and Brasilia, and was proclaimed Cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012. He participated in the March 2013 conclave, which elected Pope Francis.
Odilo Scherer
Born in Cerro Largo, Rio Grande do Sul, on September 21, 1949, Dom Odilo Pedro Scherer is the archdiocese of the Archdiocese of São Paulo.
In October 2024, a month after turning 75, he followed the guidelines of the Canon Law Code and announced the resignation to the São Paulo Archdiocese, but agreed to remain in office for another two years at the request of Pope Francis.
Before assuming the position of Archbishop in April 2007, he served as a teacher of Philosophy and Theology in Toledo (PR) and director and professor at the Interdiocesan Center for Cascavel Theology, also in Paraná.
In November 2007, he was proclaimed Cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI. In the conclave of 2013, he was one of the quoted to be the next Popebut its name has lost strength throughout the process.
Orani João Tempesta
Cardinal Orani João Tempesta was born in São José do Rio Pardo, in São Paulo, on June 23, 1950.
He became a Cistercian monk (of the Cister’s order) after completing high school and studied philosophy and theology in São Paulo.
Storm was ordained priest on December 7, 1974. He was a Archbishop of Belém do Pará before, in 2009, he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro.
In this position, he was responsible for receiving Pope Francis during his visit to Brazil in July 2013 for the World Youth Day.
Storm was proclaimed cardinal on February 22, 2014.
Leonardo Ulrich Steiner
Leonardo Ulrich Steiner was born on November 6, 1950 in Forquilhinha, Santa Catarina.
According to the Vatican, Steiner was ordained a priest on January 21, 1978. “Studied Philosophy and Theology with the Franciscans in Petrópolis. He obtained the title of Bachelor of Philosophy and Pedagogy from the Salesian College of Lorena,” adds the Holy See Press Room.
Manaus Archbishop since 2019, he was proclaimed Cardinal by Pope Francis in August 2022.
Sérgio da Rocha
Sérgio da Rocha was born in double, in the interior of São Paulo, on October 21, 1959. He was ordained priest on December 14, 1984.
Current archbishop in Salvador, Bahia, he was proclaimed Cardinal by Pope Francis on November 19, 2016.
In early 2023, he became the first Brazilian to be nominated for joining the Cardinian Council – a group created in 2013 with the task of assisting the Pope in the Catholic Church government and studying a project to review the Roman Curia (Holy See Administrative Institutions).
Jaime Spengler
Jaime Spengler was born on September 6, 1960 in Gaspar, Santa Catarina.
He attended philosophy philosophical institute are Boaventura, in Paraná, and theology at the Franciscan Theological Institute of Petrópolis, in Rio de Janeiro.
Spengler It is Porto Alegre Metropolitan Archbishop Since September 18, 2013.
In April 2023, he was elected president of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB) for term 2023-2027.
Spengler was the last Brazilian to be proclaimed cardinal. It was announced in early October of 2024 and officially proclaimed, in Rome, at the consistory of December 7, 2024.
Paulo Cezar Costa
Paulo Cezar Costa was born on July 20, 1967 in Valença, Rio de Janeiro. He was ordained priest in December 1992.
He was a parish priest, rector of the seminar and professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio (PUC-Rio).
The religious holds a degree in Theology from the Superior Institute of Theology of the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro (1991), Master in Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University (1998) and PhD in Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University (2001).
Since October 2020, it has been a metropolitan archbishop of the Archdiocese of Brasilia.
He was proclaimed cardinal by Pope Francis on August 27, 2022.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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