page_title: Cardinals created by Benedict XVI
section_title: 24 March 2006
hierarchical_section_title: Cardinals created by Benedict XVI / 24 March 2006
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Le cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard
context_page_description: Pope Benedict XVI created 90 cardinals in five consistories. With three of those consistories he respected the limit on the number of cardinal electors set by his predecessors at 120. He exceeded that limit at the other two consistories, reaching as high as 125 in 2012.
  With the consistory of February 2012, a majority of the cardinal electors had been named cardinals by him, 63 of 125.
context_section_description: Pope Benedict XVI created new cardinals for the first time on 24 March 2006. He announced the names of fifteen new cardinals from eleven different countries on 22 February. Three belonged to the Roman Curia, nine headed a diocese, and two were bishops emeritus. One, Albert Vanhoye, was a Jesuit priest and theologian, not a bishop. Twelve of the fifteen were under 80 years old and eligible to vote in a papal conclave. With these new cardinals, Benedict limited the number of cardinal electors to 120, the maximum set by statute since 1973 and which John Paul II had at times exceeded. The appointments brought the total number of cardinals to 193.
  William Levada (1936-2019)
  Franc Rode (b. 1934)
  Agostino Vallini (b. 1940)
  Jorge Urosa (b. 1942)
  Gaudencio Rosales (b. 1932)
  Jean-Pierre Ricard (b. 1944)
  Antonio Cañizares Llovera (b. 1945)
  Nicolas Cheong Jin-suk (b. 1931)
  Seán Patrick O'Malley (b. 1944)
  Stanisław Dziwisz (b. 1939)
  Carlo Caffarra (1938–2017)
  Joseph Zen Ze-kiun (b. 1932)
  Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo (1925–2017)
  Peter Poreku Dery (1918–2008)
  Albert Vanhoye (b. 1923)
caption: Jean-Pierre Ricard (b. 1944), made a cardinal on 24 March 2006.
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