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 at 120 in 1973, though sometimes exceeded b
Pope Benedict XVI with Cardinal Camillo Ruini, 2006
Jean-Pierre Ricard (b. 1944), made a cardinal on 24 March 2006
Joseph Zen Ze-kiun (b. 1932), made a cardinal on 24 March 2006
Paul Josef Cordes (1934–2024), made a cardinal on 24 November 2007
Pope John Paul II created 231 cardinals in nine consistories held at roughly three-year intervals. Three of those cardinals were first created in pectore, that is, without their names being announced,
Cardinals created by Benedict XVI
…electors exceeded the limit of 120, nine of them were due to turn eighty before the end of the year. Previously, only Pope John Paul II's consistories in 2001 and 2003 had produced a larger number of electors, 135. The consistory of February 2012 brought the total number of cardinals to 213. On 24 October…
Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) with Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo (1935–2008)
Józef Glemp (1929–2013), made a cardinal on 2 February 1983.
Francis Arinze (born 1932), made a cardinal on 25 May 1985
Henryk Gulbinowicz (1923–2020), made a cardinal on 25 May 1985