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Cardinals Since Vatican II: Quantity Before Quality

Davids-Ruminations.Blogspot.com (August 27) knows details about the college of Cardinals.

• There are 226 living cardinals of whom 58,4% have the right to vote in a conclave.

• The average age of the Cardinals is 78.2 years (electors: 72.3).

• The average tenure of current cardinals is 11.2 years (electors: 8.0)

• The youngest cardinals are Marengo (48,2 Ulaanbaatar), Carmo da Silva (54.73 Díli), and Cezar Costa (55.08 Brasília)

• Do Nascimento (97,5 Luanda) is the oldest cardinal.

• Since Vatican II, there has been an inflation of cardinals (below).

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Francis stacking the deck for the next conclave.