The papal conclave of 2005 was convened to elect a pope, the leader of the Catholic Church, to succeed John Paul II following his death on 2 April 2005. In accordance with the apostolic constitution U
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected Pope Benedict XVI by the conclave on 19 April 2005.
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Marco Cé was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Patriarch of Venice from 1978 to 2002 and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1979.
Cardinal electors in the 2005 conclave
…Holy See (such as in the Roman Curia), 73 were in pastoral ministry outside Rome, and 18 had retired. The oldest cardinal elector in the conclave was Marco Cé, at the age of 79, and the youngest was Péter Erdő, at the age of 52. Another 66 cardinals were ineligible to participate in the conclave for reasons…
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