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The College of Cardinals is divided into three orders, with formal precedence in the following sequence: [1]. Cardinal bishops (CB): the six cardinals who are assigned the titles of the seven suburbicarian dioceses in the vicinity of Rome by the pope, [a] plus a few other cardinals who have been exceptionally co-opted into the order, [9] [10] as well as patriarchs who head one of the Eastern ...
The following is a list of bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States. The list also includes bishops in American territories and commonwealths, including Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Catholic Church in the United States comprises:
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The College of Cardinals, more formally called the Sacred College of Cardinals, is the body of all cardinals of the Catholic Church. [1] As of 22 January 2025, there are 252 cardinals, of whom 138 are eligible to vote in a conclave to elect a new pope. Cardinals are appointed by the pope for life but eligibility to vote ceases at the age of 80.
John Carroll (1) became the first American bishop in 1790. Portrait of Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus by Gilbert Stuart. Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus (7) was the first bishop of Boston, and became a cardinal after he returned to France. John McCloskey (42) was Archbishop of New York and became the first American cardinal in 1875.
American cardinals (4 C, 1 P) C. Canadian cardinals (19 P) Cuban cardinals (3 P) D. Dominica cardinals (1 P) Dominican Republic cardinals (2 P) G. Guatemalan ...
List of Cardinal Secretaries of State This page was last edited on 4 October 2018, at 16:04 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The list included the first cardinals from Brunei and Rwanda; [79] [80] the first Conventual Franciscan to become a cardinal in almost 160 years (Gambetti); [81] [t] the first African American cardinal (Gregory); [83] the first Archbishop of Capiz to be made a cardinal; [84] and the first Archbishop of Siena to be made a cardinal since 1801.