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(1) Cardinal Angelo Scola
Country: Italy
Age: 71
Titles: Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli; Archbishop of Milan
Scola is one of the front-runners to be selected, after many considered him a candidate following John Paul II's death in 2005. More academic than pastoral, Scola has published over 100 articles in journals of philosophy and theology and is the founder of Oasis, an organization that seeks to bolster the relationship between the Western and Muslim worlds.
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(2) Cardinal Peter Turkson
Country: Ghana
Age: 64
Title: Cardinal-Priest of S. Liborio
Another favorite of the oddsmakers and prediction markets, Turkson was born in Western Ghana but studied at St. Anthony-on-Hudson Seminary in New York. His uncle is Muslim, and Turkson has been a leader in smoothing Catholic-Muslim relations across Africa.
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(3) Cardinal Marc Ouellet
Country: Canada
Age: 68
Titles:Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Traspontina; Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops
As the head of the Congregation for Bishops, the Canadian-born Ouellet has the advantage of strong relationships with many of those involved with the conclave. If selected, he would be the first North American pope.
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(4) Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco
Country: Italy
Age: 70
Titles: Cardinal-Priest of Gran Madre di Dio; Archbishop of Genoa
Bagnasco is another Italian candidate, and is considered to be a potential compromise choice between the different voting factions. Bagnasco studied metaphysics and contemporary atheism at the University of Genoa.
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(5) Cardinal Francis Arinze
Country: Nigeria
Age: 80
Title: Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri-Segni
Arinze was another popular candidate in 2005, who some think might be too old for the position now. The Nigerian was born into the Igbo tribe but converted to Catholicism at age 9 after attending an Irish missionary school.
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(6) Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone
Country: Italy
Age: 78
Titles: Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati, Cardinal Secretary of State
As the Vatican's secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, 78, is currently in control of the Apostolic Palace. In 2006, he was awarded the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
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(7) Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi
Country: Italy
Age: 70
Titles:Cardinal-Deacon of San Giorgio in Velabro, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture
Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, the culture minister at the Vatican, is known for sending out his own tweets and quoting Amy Winehouse. Some hope that he'd be a candidate that would appeal to a younger generation. In addition to possessing pop culture awareness, he reaches out to a wide audience by communicating in English, Italian, Hebrew, Arabic, and Greek.
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Cardinal Leonardo SandriCountry: Argentina
Age: 69
Titles: Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari; Prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches
The Argentine cardinal moved to Rome when he was 27 and a canon lawyer, and rose to become head of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches. When Pope John Paul II could no longer speak because of Parkinson's disease, Sandri became known as his "voice" and substitute secretary of state.
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(9) Cardinal Odilo Scherer
Country: Brazil
Age: 63
Titles: Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Andrea al Quirinale; Archbishop of Sao Paulo
Currently serving as the archbishop of São Paulo, Scherer is tipped as Latin America's best papal contender. His German roots and obvious ties to Brazil, the world's largest Catholic country, "could strike many cardinals as a 'safe' bridge between the church's past and its future."
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(10) Cardinal Claudio Hummes
Country: Brazil
Age: 78
Title: Cardinal-Priest of S. Antonio da Padova in Via Merulana
A former archbishop of Fortaleza and São Paulo, Cardinal Hummes was appointed to head the Congregation for the Clergy by then-Pope Benedict XVI in 2006. He is a strong proponent of social justice and is a member of the Order of Friars Minor, also known as the Franciscans.
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(11) Cardinal Christoph Schönborn
Country: Austria
Age: 68
Title: Archbishop of Vienna
Schönborn is a member of the Schönborn-Buchheim-Wolfsthal family, an ancient Austrian lineage that has produced over 20 clergy members. In the 1970s, he studied theology under then-Rev. Joseph Ratzinger, the man who went on to become Pope Benedict XVI.
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(12) Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith
Country: Sri Lanka
Age: 65
Title: Cardinal-Archbishop of Colombo
As the archbishop of Colombo, Ranjith is the pre-eminent archbishop of Sri Lanka. He is fluent in 10 languages and once said, "Love for the liturgy and love for the poor ... have been the compass of my life as a priest." Ordained as a cardinal in 2010, he is aligned with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in terms of his theological and liturgical beliefs, and that — combined with his solid pastoral experience — make him a contender.
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