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Cardinal Raul Eduardo Vela Chiriboga, the Metropolitan Archbishop Emeritus of Quito (Ecuador) turns 80, ceases to be a Cardinal-elector

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Today, Wednesday, 1 January 2014, on New Year’s Day, Cardinal Raul Eduardo Vela Chiriboga, Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Via, the Metropolitan Archbishop Emeritus of Quito, of Ecuador, turns 80, and therefore, according to the rules written in the Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis, he loses his right to vote in any future conclave.

Cardinal Raul Eduardo Vela Chiriboga was made Cardinal-Priest of S. Pudenziana by Pope Benedict XVI in the 2010 Consistory of Cardinals on 20 November 2010, the third Consistory of his pontificate. Cardinal Vela Chiriboga was made a Cardinal in honour of his service to the Church as the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Quito in Ecuador from 2003 to 2010, retiring just before he received the red hat from the Pope.

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May God bless His Eminence Cardinal Vela Chiriboga, with a blessed old age and health. May he remain strong in the faith and hopefully can perhaps still continue to work great graces and good works of love and peace in his old age and retirement, as he continued to minister to the people of God.

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The College of Cardinals now stands at 199 members in total, with 107 Cardinal-electors and 92 Cardinal non-electors. There are now vacancy of 13 Cardinal-electors as compared to the maximum number of electors allowed in the Conclave of 120, although Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI had sometimes surpassed this limit.

Next Cardinal-elector to age out (80) will be Cardinal Giovanni Batista Re, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Bishops, on 30 January 2014.

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Cardinal Joachim Meisner, Metropolitan Archbishop of Koln (Germany) turns 80, ceases to be a Cardinal-elector

Kardinal Meisner feiert 75. Geburtstag

Today, Wednesday, 25 December 2013, on Christmas Day, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, Cardinal-Priest of S. Pudenziana, the current Metropolitan Archbishop of Koln, of Germany, turns 80, and therefore, according to the rules written in the Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis, he loses his right to vote in any future conclave.

Cardinal Joachim Meisner was made Cardinal-Priest of S. Pudenziana by Blessed Pope John Paul II in the 1983 Consistory of Cardinals on 2 February 1983, the Solemnity of the Presentation of the Lord, the second Consistory of his pontificate. Cardinal Meisner was made a Cardinal in his position as the Bishop of Berlin since 1980, and in 1988 until now, he is the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Koln.

Kardinal Meisner feiert 75. Geburtstag

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May God bless His Eminence Cardinal Meisner, with a blessed old age and health. May he remain strong in the faith and hopefully can perhaps still continue carry out the mission God had given him in the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Koln, where he continues to be the shepherd of the people of God.

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The College of Cardinals now stands at 199 members in total, with 108 Cardinal-electors and 91 Cardinal non-electors. There are now vacancy of 12 Cardinal-electors as compared to the maximum number of electors allowed in the Conclave of 120, although Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI had sometimes surpassed this limit.

Next Cardinal-elector to age out (80) will be Cardinal Raul Eduardo Vela Chiriboga, the Metropolitan Archbishop Emeritus of Quito (Ecuador),  on New Year’s Day, 1 January 2014.