Cardinal Bertone is Camerlengo: The 117 Cardinals Who Will Elect the 266th Pope

Edit: unless something else unprecedented happens.  Cardinal Kasper will also vote. 

(Vatican) after the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.  on the evening of February 28th, the next Conclave will be convened. This must be in accordance with current electoral rules must meet between the 15th and 20th day from the time at which the Holy See becomes vacant, to elect the new pontiff.

The Dean of the College of Cardinals will celebrate Holy Mass with the assembled cardinals in St. Peter's Basilica.  The Cardinal Dean since 2005, Cardinal Angelo Sodano,  is no longer eligible to vote because of his age. In 2005 Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger was Dean of the College of Cardinals. After Mass, the voting cardinals will make an invocation of the Holy Spirit in the Sistine Chapel, where they are sequestered until the election of the new Pope.

In the coming conclave 117 cardinals will be eligible to vote, which will be the highest-ranking official will be Tarcisio Cardinal Pietro Bertone Evasio. Since neither the Dean nor his deputy are members retired from the conclave, they will head the oldest and most senior among the elected cardinals of the conclave, which will be Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the emeritus Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops,  the eldest among the Cardinals of the conclave who is among the eldest of the member bishops of the conclave. The College of Cardinals is divided into three grades, into cardinal-bishops, cardinal-priests and cardinal-deacons.

The conclave will be between the 15th and 20th Begin March. According to Article 33 of the Apostolic Constitution  Universi Domici Gregis of Pope John Paul II in 1996 it allows the German Cardinal Walter Kasper, the oldest of the electors to still participate in the conclave. According to the original rules of order by Pope Paul VI., only those cardinals are eligible to vote who have  not completed their 80th year at the beginning of the conclave. Cardinal Kasper is 80 on 5 March.

From the German-speaking countries, there are seven Cardinals attending the conclave, Cardinal Kasper (President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity), Cardinal Meisner (archbishop of Cologne), Cardinal Lehmann (Bishop of Mainz), Cardinal Schönborn (Archbishop of Vienna ), Cardinal Koch (President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity), Cardinal Marx (Archbishop of Munich-Freising), Woelki Cardinal (Archbishop of Berlin).

67 of the 116 voting cardinals were elevated by Pope Benedict XVI. to the rank of Cardinal. 24 of them in 2012 alone, with two extraordinary consistories.

Camerlengo : Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Bertone, S.D.B., age : 78.

Cardinal Proto-Deacon: Jean-Louis Pierre Tauran, age: 69.9

The Other Participants of the Conclave:

Giovanni Battista Re, Kardinal-Bischof von Sabina-Poggio Mirteto, age: 79.1

Tarcisio Pietro Evasio Bertone, S.D.B., Cardinal Bishop of Frascati, age: 78.3

Antonios Naguib, emeritierter Patriarch von Alexandria (Copt), Egypt, age: 78.0

Béchara Boutros Raï, O.M.M., Patriarch von Antioch (Maroniten), Lebanon, age: 73.1

Godfried Danneels, emeritus Archbishop of Mechelen-Brüssel, Belgien, Alter: 79.8

Joachim Meisner, Erzbischof Cologne, Deutschland, age: 79.2

Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, Archbishop  of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, age: 76.4

Roger Michael Mahony, emeritus  Archbishop of Los Angeles, California, USA, age: 77.1

Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Archbishop of San Cristobal de la Havana, Cuba, age: 76.4

Julius Riyadi Darmaatmadja, S.J.,  emeritus Archbishop of Jakarta, Indonesia, age: 78.2

Jean-Claude Turcotte, emeritus Archbishop of Montréal, Québec, Canada, age: 76.7

Vinko Puljic, Archbishop of Vrhbosna (Sarajewo), Bosnia and Herzegovina, age: 67.5

Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, Archbishop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, age : 80.0

Antonio María Rouco Varela, Archbishop of Madrid, Spain, age: 76.6

Dionigi Tettamanzi, emeritus Archbishop of Milan, Italy, age: 79.0

Polycarp Pengo, Erzbischof  of Dar-es-Salaam, Tansania, age: 68.6

Christoph Schönborn, O.P., Archbishop of Vienna, Austria, age: 68.2

Norberto Rivera Carrera, Archbishop of  México, State, age: 70.8

Francis Eugene George, O.M.I., Archbishop of Chicago, Illinois, USA, age: 76.2

Zenon Grocholewski, Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, age: 73.4

Crescenzio Sepe, Archbishop of Naples, Italy, age: 69.8

Walter Kasper, emeritus President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, age: 80.0

Ivan Dias, emeritierter Präfekt der Kongregation für die Evangelisierung der Völker, age: 76.9

Geraldo Majella Agnelo, emeritus Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, age: 79.4

Audrys Juozas Bačkis, Archbishop of Vilnius, Litauen, age: 76.1

Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, emeritus Archbishop of Santiago de Chile, age: 79.5

Julio Terrazas Sandoval, C.SS.R., Archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, age: 77.0

Wilfrid Fox Napier, O.F.M., Archbishop of Durban, Südafrika, age: 72.0

Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, S.D.B., Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, age: 70.2

Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne,  Archbishop of Lima, Peru, age: 69.2

Cláudio Hummes, O.F.M., emeritus Prefect of the Congregation of Clergy, age: 78.6

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J., Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentinien, age: 76.2

José da Cruz Policarpo, Patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal, age: 77.1

Severino Poletto, emeritierter Archbishop of  Turin, Italy, Alter: 80.0

Karl Lehmann, Bishop von Mainz, Deutschland, age: 76.8

Angelo Scola, Archbishop of Milan, Italien, age: 71.4

Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, emeritierter Erzbischof von Lagos, Nigeria, Alter: 76.8

Gabriel Zubeir Wako, Archbishop of Khartum, Sudan, age: 72.1

Carlos Amigo Vallejo, O.F.M., emeritus Archbishop of Sevilla, Spain, age: 78.6

Justin Francis Rigali, emeritus Archbishop of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, age: 77.9

Keith Michael Patrick O’Brien, Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, Schottland, age: 75.0

Ennio Antonelli, emeritus President for the Council on the Family, age: 76.3

Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, President of the Council for Peace and Justice, age: 64.4

Telesphore Placidus Toppo, Erzbischof von Ranchi, Indien, Alter: 73.4

George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, Australien, age: 71.8

Josip Bozanić, Archbishop of Zagreb, Kroatien, age: 64.0

Jean-Baptiste Pham Minh Mân, Archbishop of Thành-Phô Hô Chí Minh, Vietnam, Alter: 79.0

Philippe Xavier Ignace Barbarin, Archbishop of Lyon, Frankreich, age: 62.4

Péter Erdõ,  Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Ungarn, age: 60.7

Marc Ouellet, P.S.S., Prefect of the Bishop’s Congregation, age: 68.8

Agostino Vallini, Vicar General of the Diocese of Rome, Italy, age: 72.9

Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino, Archbishop of Caracas, Venezuela, age: 70.6

Jean-Pierre Bernard Ricard, Archbishop of Bordeaux, Frankreich,age: 68.5

Antonio Cañizares Llovera, Prefect of the Congregation of Liturgy and the Order of the Sacraments, age: 67.4

Sean Patrick O’Malley, O.F.M. Cap.,  Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, age: 68.7

Stanisław Dziwisz, Erzbischof von Krakau, Polen, Alter: 73.9

Carlo Caffarra, Archbishop of Bologna, Italien, age: 74.8

Seán Baptist Brady, Archbishop of Armagh, Irland, age: 73.6

Lluís Martínez Sistach, Archbishop of Barcelona, Spain, age: 75.9

André Armand Vingt-Trois, Archbishop of Paris, France, age: 70.4

Angelo Bagnasco, Archbishop Genua, Italy, age: 70.2

Théodore-Adrien Sarr, Archbishop of Dakar, Senegal, age: 76.3

Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, India, age: 68.2

José Francisco Robles Ortega, Archibshop of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexiko, age: 64.0

Daniel Nicholas DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, USA, age: 63.8

Odilo Pedro Scherer, Archbishop of São Paulo, Brazil, age: 63.5

John Njue, Archbishop of Nairobi, Kenia, Alter: 69.2

Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga, Emeritus Archbishop of Quito, Ecuador, age: 79.2

Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Archbishop of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, age: 73.4

Paolo Romeo, Archbishop of Palermo, Italien, age: 75.1

Donald William Wuerl, Archbishop of  Washington, District of Columbia, USA, Alter: 72.3

Raymundo Damasceno Assis, Archbishop of Aparecida, Brazil, age: 76.1

Kazimierz Nycz, Archbishop of Warsaw, Poland, age: 63.1

Albert Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige Don, Erzbischof von Colombo, Sri Lanka, age: 65.3

Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich und Freising, Deutschland, age: 59.5

George Alencherry, Grand Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly (Syro-Malabar), India, age: 67.9

Thomas Christopher Collins, Archbishop of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, age: 66.2

Dominik Jaroslav Duka, O.P.,  Archbishop of Prague, Czech Republic, age: 69.9

Willem Jacobus Eijk, Archbishop of Utrecht, Holland, age: 59.7

Giuseppe Betori, Archbishop of Florence, Italy, age: 66.1

Timothy Michael Dolan, Archbishop of New York, USA, age: 63.1

Rainer Maria Woelki, Archbishop of Berlin, Deutschland, age: 56.6

John Tong Hon, Bishop of Hong Kong, China, age: 73.6

Baselios Cleemis (Isaac) Thottunkal, Grand Archbishop von Trivandrum (Syro-Malankar), India, age: 53.8

John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja, Nigeria, age: 69.1

Rubén Salazar Gómez, Archbishop of Bogotá, Colombia, age: 70.5

Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle, Archbishop of Manila, Philippines, age: 55.7

Jean-Louis Pierre Tauran, President of the Council for Interreligious Dialog, age: 69.9

Attilio Nicora, President Emeritus for the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See, age: 76.0

William Joseph Levada, emeritus Prefect of the Congregation for Doctrine and the Faith, Alter: 76.8

Franc Rodé, C.M., emeritus Prefect of the Congregation of Bishops, age: 78.5

Leonardo Sandri,Prefect for the Congregation of Oriental Churches, age: 69.3

Giovanni Lajolo, emeritus Prefect for the Governorate of the Holy See, age: 78.2

Paul Josef Cordes, emeritus President of the Papal Council  “Cor Unum”, Alter: 78.5

Angelo Comastri, President for St. Peter’s Chapel , Alter: 69.5

Stanisław Ryłko, President of the Pontifical Council for Laity, age: 67.7

Raffaele Farina, S.D.B., emeritus Archivist for the Secret Pontifical Archive, age: 79.5

Angelo Amato, S.D.B., Prefect for the Congregation of the Causes of Saints, age: 74.8

Robert Sarah, President of the Pontifical Council of "Cor Unum”,  age: 67.8

Francesco Monterisi, emeritus Archpriest of the Pontifical  Basilica San Paolo fuori le mura, Rom, age: 78.8

Raymond Leo Burke, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, age: 64.7

Kurt Koch, President of the Pontifical Council for the Evangelization of Peoples, age: 63.0

Paolo Sardi, emeritus Vice Chamberlain, age: 78.5

Mauro Piacenza, Prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, age: 68.5

Velasio De Paolis, C.S., president emeritus of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See, age: 77.5

Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Papal Cultural Council, Alter: 70.4

Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Alter: 66.9

Manuel Monteiro de Castro,  Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary. Cardinal-Deacon of San Domenico di Guzman, age: 75.0

Santos Abril y Castelló, Archpriest of the Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rom, age: 77.5

Antonio Maria Vegliò, President of the Papal Council for the Homeless , age: 75.1

Giuseppe Bertello, President of the Governorate of Vatican City, Alter: 70.5

Francesco Coccopalmerio, President for the Papal Council of Legal Texts, age: 75.0

João Bráz de Aviz, Prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, Alter: 65.9

Edwin Frederick O’Brien, Grand Master of the Knights of the Temple of Jerusalemm, Alter: 73.9

Domenico Calcagno, Präsident der Güterverwaltung des Apostolischen Stuhls, Alter: 70.1

Giuseppe Versaldi, Präfekt For the Household of the Holy See, age: 69.6

James Michael Harvey, Archpriest of the Papal Basilica of St. Paul by the Walls, Rom, age: 63.4

Text: Giuseppe Nardi, Zusammengestellt nach Catholic Hierarchy

Bild: Vatican Insider

Also, tears filled the eyes of many Cardinals, including Cardinal Bertone today, as the Holy Father said his last public Mass, according to Rome Reports.