Council of Cardinals information

The Council of Cardinals (also called C9 because it contained 9 cardinal members for some time), also known as the Council of Cardinal Advisers, is a group...

The College of Cardinals, more formally called the Sacred College of Cardinals, is the body of all cardinals of the Catholic Church. As of 31 May 2024...

Paul II Cardinals created by Benedict XVI Cardinals created by Francis Cardinal electors in the 2013 papal conclave Council of Cardinal Advisers List of creations...

November 2018, Errazuriz announced that he was no longer a member of the Council of Cardinals, which serves as the Pope's advisory committee, claiming that...

refused to attend the Consistory to elevate the four new cardinals. On May 11 one of the cardinals, Jean Gilles, left Lucca, where Pope Gregory was staying...

The council has been working on the new constitution since 2014. The first draft of the constitution was approved by the Council of Cardinals in 2018...

cardinal priest (a member of the second order of the College of Cardinals), whereas a deaconry (Latin: diaconia) is normally assigned to a cardinal deacon...

absentee bishops. The Council encouraged cardinal-nephews. Establishing better criteria for abbots. Establishing peer review by cardinals of each others' visitation...

2013 and a member of the Council of Cardinal Advisers since July 2014. Before that, he worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See for thirty years...

3 August 1966) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as Secretary of the Council of Cardinals. He has been a bishop since 2018 and worked...

of Asian Bishops' Conferences from 2010 to 2019. On 13 April 2013, he was appointed to the eight-member Council of Cardinals, informally the Council of...

Fondi, thirteen cardinals elected Robert of Geneva as Pope Clement VII on 20 September 1378. The cardinals argued that the election of Urban VI was invalid...

April 1123. After the death of Pope Honorius II (1124–1130), two popes were elected by two groups of cardinals. Sixteen cardinals elected Pope Innocent II...

prelate of the Catholic Church. A cardinal since 20 November 2010, he was prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments...

instructions to Cardinal Giulio Cesarini, his legate and president of the Council of Basel, wrote that cardinals should not be protectors of lords or communities...

takes possession of the Ring of the Fisherman and cuts it with shears in the presence of the cardinals. This act symbolizes the end of the late Pope's...

and on January 29, 2011, of the Council of Cardinals and Bishops of the Section for Relations with States of the Secretariat of State. On October 7, 2008...

of leadership, through synods of bishops and through his personal use of a worldwide advisory council of eight cardinals. A most contentious conclusion...

2005 Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist, one of eight members of the Council of Cardinals for the Study of Organizational and Economic Affairs of the Holy...

the Order of the Nation had been annulled. Cardinals Giovanni Battista Re and Tarcisio Bertone represented the cardinal-bishops; Cardinals Joachim Meisner...

27 cardinals 26 June 1967, 27 cardinals 28 April 1969, 34 cardinals 5 March 1973, 30 cardinals 24 May 1976, 20 cardinals 27 June 1977, 4 cardinals The...

(October 24, 2012). "The consistory of the six cardinals". Vatican Diary. Retrieved December 15, 2015. "Four new cardinals had to keep news secret from synod"...