The list eligible to vote for a pope in a conclave includes 11 from the United States, including three born in Los Angeles: Cardinals Roger Mahony, retired archbishop of Los Angeles; Justin Rigali, retired archbishop of Philadelphia; and William Levada, retired prefect, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and former archbishop of San Francisco. All three were ordained from St. John’s Seminary, Camarillo, in 1961 or 1962.Also eligible to vote for a pope (in order from oldest to youngest) are Cardinals Francis George, Chicago; Edwin O'Brien, grand master, Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre; Donald Wuerl, Washington; Sean O'Malley, Boston; Raymond Burke, prefect, Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature; Daniel DiNardo, Galveston-Houston; James Harvey, archpriest, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls; and Timothy Dolan, New York.Following is a list of 117 cardinal-electors, from oldest to youngest, eligible to vote for a pope in a conclave. (Those from the U.S. are in boldface.) Note that Cardinal Walter Kasper turns 80 March 5; depending on the date of the conclave, he might be over 80, and thus too old to vote in a conclave. The next oldest, Cardinal Severino Poletto of Turin, Italy, turns 80 March 18.— Walter Kasper, president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.— Severino Poletto, Turin, Italy.— Juan Sandoval Iniguez, Guadalajara, Mexico.— Godfried Danneels, Mechelen-Brussels.— Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa, Santiago de Chile.— Raffaele Farina, retired head, Vatican Secret Archives and the Vatican Library.— Geraldo Majella Agnelo, Sao Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.— Joachim Meisner, Cologne, Germany.— Raul Vela Chiriboga, Quito, Ecuador.— Giovanni Battista Re, former prefect, Congregation for Bishops.— Dionigi Tettamanzi, Milan.— Francesco Monterisi, retired secretary, Congregation for Bishops.— Claudio Hummes, retired prefect, Congregation for Clergy.— Carlos Amigo Vallejo, Seville, Spain.— Paolo Sardi, former official in the Vatican Secretariat of State.— Paul Josef Cordes, past president of Cor Unum.— Franc Rode, retired prefect, Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.— Tarcisio Bertone, secretary of state.— Julius Darmaatmadja, Jakarta, Indonesia.— Jean-Baptiste Pham Minh Man, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.— Giovanni Lajolo, former president, commission governing Vatican City State.— Antonios Naguib, Alexandria, Egypt.— Justin Rigali, Philadelphia.— Velasio De Paolis, papal delegate overseeing reform of the Legionaries of Christ and Regnum Christi.— Santos Abril Castello, archpriest, Basilica of St. Mary Major.— Jose da Cruz Policarpo, Lisbon, Portugal.— Roger Mahony, retired archbishop, Los Angeles.— Julio Terrazas Sandoval of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.— Ivan Dias, former prefect, Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.— Karl Lehmann, Mainz, Germany.— William Levada, retired prefect, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.— Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, Lagos, Nigeria.— Jean-Claude Turcotte, Montreal.— Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, Madrid.— Jaime Ortega Alamino, Havana.— Nicolas Lopez Rodriguez, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.— Ennio Antonelli, Florence, Italy.— Theodore-Adrien Sarr, Dakar, Senegal.— Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Buenos Aires, Argentina.— Francis George, Chicago.— Audrys Juozas Backis Vilnius, Lithuania.— Raymundo Damasceno Assis, Aparecida, Brazil.— Attilio Nicora, president emeritus, Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See.— Lluis Martinez Sistach, Barcelona, Spain.— Antonio Maria Veglio, president, Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers.— Paolo Romeo of Palermo, Italy.— Francesco Coccopalmerio, president, Pontifical Council for Interpreting Legislative Texts.— Keith O'Brien, St. Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland.— Manuel Monteiro de Castro, head, Apostolic Penitentiary.— Carlo Caffarra, Bologna, Italy.— Angelo Amato, prefect, Congregation for Saints' Causes.— Edwin O'Brien, grand master, Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre.— Stanislaw Dziwisz, Krakow, Poland.— John Tong Hon, Hong Kong.— Sean Brady, Armagh, Northern Ireland.— Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Kinshasa, Congo.— Zenon Grocholewski, prefect, Congregation for Catholic Education.— Telesphore Toppo, Ranchi, India.— Bechara Rai, Maronite patriarch.— Agostino Vallini, papal vicar for Rome.— Donald Wuerl, Washington.— Gabriel Zubeir Wako, Khartoum, Sudan.— Wilfrid Napier, Durban, South Africa.— George Pell, Sydney.— Angelo Scola, Milan.— Norberto Rivera Carrera, Mexico City.— Jorge Urosa Savino, Caracas, Venezuela.— Ruben Salazar Gomez, Bogota, Colombia.— Giuseppe Bertello, president, Governorate of Vatican City State.— Gianfranco Ravasi, president, Pontifical Council for Culture.— Andre Vingt-Trois, Paris.— Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.— Angelo Bagnasco, Genoa, Italy.— Domenico Calcagno, president, Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See.— Jean-Louis Tauran, president, Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.— George Alencherry, Ernakulam-Angamaly, major archbishop of Syro-Malabar Catholic Church.— Dominik Duka, Prague, Czech Republic.— Crescenzio Sepe, Naples, Italy.— Giuseppe Versaldi, president, Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See.— Angelo Comastri, archpriest, St. Peter's Basilica.— Leonardo Sandri, prefect, Congregation for Eastern Churches.— Juan Cipriani Thorne, Lima, Peru.— John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan of Abuja, Nigeria.— Marc Ouellet, prefect, Congregation for Bishops.— Sean O'Malley, Boston.— Polycarp Pengo, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.— Mauro Piacenza, prefect, Congregation for Clergy.— Jean-Pierre Ricard, Bordeaux, France.— Oswald Gracias, Mumbai, India.— John Njue, Nairobi, Kenya.— Christoph Schonborn, Vienna.— Robert Sarah, president, Pontifical Council Cor Unum.— Stanislaw Rylko, president, Pontifical Council for the Laity.— Vinko Puljic, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.— Antonio Canizares Llovera, prefect, Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments.— Fernando Filoni, prefect, Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.— Thomas Collins, Toronto.— Giuseppe Betori, Florence, Italy.— Joao Braz de Aviz, prefect, Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.— Albert Malcom Ranjith, Colombo, Sri Lanka.— Raymond Burke, prefect, Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature.— Peter Turkson, president, Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.— Francisco Robles Ortega, Guadalajara, Mexico.— Josip Bozanic, Zagreb, Croatia.— Daniel DiNardo, Galveston-Houston.— Odilo Pedro Scherer, Sao Paulo.— James Harvey, archpriest, Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls.— Kazimierz Nycz, Warsaw, Poland.— Timothy Dolan, New York.— Kurt Koch, president, Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.— Philippe Barbarin, Lyon, France.— Peter Erdo, Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary.— Willem Jacobus Eijk, Utrecht, Netherlands.— Reinhard Marx, Munich and Freising, Germany.— Rainer Maria Woelki, Berlin.— Luis Antonio Tagle, Manila, Philippines.— Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal, major archbishop of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church.—CNS{gallery width=100 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