Tuesday, March 12, 2013

And so it begins

At 4:30pm local time in Rome (11:30am EST), the hour appointed by the Cardinal Fathers gathered in General Congregation, the Conclave for the election of the Roman Pontiff will begin.


The procession will begin in the Pauline Chapel of the Apostolic Palace.  Preceded by the Cross and the Book of Gospels, the Cardinals will process while singing the Litany of Saints, the 115 Cardinal electors will process to the Sistine Chapel.  When they arrive there, they will sing the Veni Creator Spiritus, pronounce the prescribed oath, after which the Master of Pontifical Ceremonies, Monsignor Guido Marini will pronounce the extra omnes and everyone who is not participating in the Conclave will then leave the Chapel.  The only exceptions will be the Master of Pontifical Ceremonies and His Eminence, Prosper Cardinal Grech, OSA who will deliver the meditation to his brothers.  Once the meditation has been given, Monsignor Marini and Cardinal Grech will also leave the Sistine Chapel, and the only ones who will remain are the Cardinal electors, who will proceed to the first vote.

The Vatican Press Office also published this morning, a list of the Cardinal electors who will participate in the procession from the Pauline Chapel to the Sistine Chapel today.  The list is in reverse order of prescedence, beginning with the Cardinals who will be last in line (arranged according to their seniority by order of the date on which they were created Cardinal), and ending with the ones who will be first, following the Cross and the Book of Gospels.


Cardinal Bishops
RE Card. Giovanni Battista
BERTONE Card. Tarcisio, S.D.B.

Cardinal Patriarchs of the Oriental Rites
NAGUIB Card. Antonios
RAÏ Card. Béchara Boutros, O.M.M.


Cardinal Priests
DANNEELS Card. Godfried
MEISNER Card. Joachim
LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ Card. Nicolas de Jesús
MAHONY Card. Roger Michael
ORTEGA Y ALAMINO Card. Jaime Lucas
TURCOTTE Card. Jean-Claude
PULJIĆ Card. Vinko
SANDOVAL ÍÑIGUEZ Card. Juan
ROUCO VARELA Card. Antonio María
TETTAMANZI Card. Dionigi
PENGO Card. Polycarp
SCHÖNBORN Card. Christoph, O.P.
RIVERA CARRERA Card. Norberto
GEORGE Card. Francis Eugene, O.M.I.
GROCHOLEWSKI Card. Zenon
SEPE Card. Crescenzio
KASPER Card. Walter
DIAS Card. Ivan
AGNELO Card. Geraldo Majella
BAČKIS Card. Audrys Juozas
ERRÁZURRIZ OSSA Card. Francisco Javier
TERRAZAS SANDOVAL Card. Julio, C.SS.R.
NAPIER Card. Wilfrid Fox, O.F.M.
RODRÍGUEZ MARADIAGA Card. Óscar Andrés, S.D.B.
CIPRIANI THORNE Card. Juan Luis
HUMMES Card. Cláudio, O.F.M.
BERGOGLIO Card. Jorge Mario, S.I.
POLICARPO Card. José da CRUZ
POLETTO Card. Severino
LEHMANN Card. Karl
SCOLA Card. Angelo
OKOGIE Card. Anthony Olubunmi
ZUBEIR WAKO Card. Gabriel
AMIGO VALLEJO Card. Carlos, O.F.M.
RIGALI Card. Justin Francis
ANTONELLI Card. Ennio
TURKSON Card. Peter Kodwo Appiah
TOPPO Card. Telesphore Placidus
PELL Card. George
BOZANIĆ Card. Josip
PHAM MINH MÂN Card. Jean-Baptiste
BARBARIN Card. Philippe
ERDŐ Card. Péter
OUELLET Card. Marc, P.S.S.
VALLINI Card. Agostino
UROSA SAVINO Card. Jorge Liberato
RICARD Card. Jean-Pierre
CAÑIZARES LLOVERA Card. Antonio
O’MALLEY Card. Sean Patrick, O.F.M. Cap.
DZIWISZ Card. Stanisław
CAFFARRA Card. Carlo
BRADY Card. Seán Baptist
MARTÍNEZ SISTACH Card. Lluís
VINGT-TROIS Card. André
BAGNASCO Card. Angelo
SARR Card. Théodore-Adrien
GRACIAS Card. Oswald
ROBLES ORTEGA Card. Francisco
DiNARDO Card. Daniel N.
SCHERER Card. Odilo Pedro
NJUE Card. John
VELA CHIRIBOGA Card. Raúl Eduardo
MONSENGWO PASINYA Card. Laurent
ROMEO Card. Paolo
WUERL Card. Donald William
ASSIS Card. Raymundo DAMASCENO
NYCZ Card. Kazimierz
PATABENDIGE DON Card. Albert Malcolm Ranjith
MARX Card. Reinhard
ALENCHERRY Card. George
COLLINS Card. Thomas Christopher
DUKA Card. Dominik, O.P.
EIJK Card. Willem Jacobus
BETORI Card. Giuseppe
DOLAN Card. Timothy Michael
WOELKI Card. Rainer Maria
TONG HON Card. John
THOTTUNKAL Card. Baselios Cleemis
ONAIYEKAN Card. John Olorunfemi
SALAZAR GÓMEZ Card. Rubén
TAGLE Card. Luis Antonio

Cardinal Deacons
TAURAN Card. Jean-Louis
NICORA Card. Attilio
LEVADA Card. William Joseph
RODÉ Card. Franc, C.M.
SANDRI Card. Leonardo
LAJOLO Card. Giovanni
CORDES Card. Paul Josef
COMASTRI Card. Angelo
RYŁKO Card. Stanisław
FARINA Card. Raffaele, S.D.B.
AMATO Card. Angelo, S.D.B.
SARAH Card. Robert
MONTERISI Card. Francesco
BURKE Card. Raymond Leo
KOCH Card. Kurt
SARDI Card. Paolo
PIACENZA Card. Mauro
DE PAOLIS Card. Velasio, C.S.
RAVASI Card. Gianfranco
FILONI Card. Fernando
MONTEIRO de CASTRO Card. Manuel
ABRIL y CASTELLÓ Card. Santos
VEGLIÒ Card. Antonio Maria
BERTELLO Card. Giuseppe
COCCOPALMERIO Card. Francesco
AVIZ Card. João BRAZ de
O’BRIEN Card. Edwin Frederick
CALCAGNO Card. Domenico
VERSALDI Card. Giuseppe
HARVEY Card. James Michael


Since Cardinal Sodano, the Dean of the College of Cardinals has already reached the age limit for the Cardinal electors (80 years old), he is not allowed to enter the Conclave.  Instead, His Eminence, Giovanni Battista Cardinal Re, the senior Cardinal Bishop who will be present will assure the roles normally fulfilled by the Dean.

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