No cardinal eligible to participate in a papal conclave has gone as long as Antonelli–29 years–without doing so. Roger Etchegaray overtook Antonelli on 26 November 2008 in years of service as a cardinal and ultimately served for 40 years without participating in a conclave, but he was only eligible to do so for about 23 years because of the age limit of 80 years old imposed by Pope Paul VI in 1971. In both Antonelli's and Etchegaray's cases, their nonparticipation in conclaves was not by choice since there was no conclave either of them could attend freely and legally. No conclave was held while Antonelli was a cardinal, and Etchegaray was excluded by his age from participating in the conclaves of 2005 and 2013.