Cardinals created by Francis
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Pope Francis (r. 2013–2025) created cardinals at ten consistories held at roughly annual intervals beginning in 2014 and for the last time on 7 December 2024. The cardinals created by Francis include 163 cardinals from 76 countries, 25 of which had never been represented in the College of Cardinals. His appointments include the first Scandinavian since the Reformation, the first from Goa since an episcopal see was established there in 1533, the first from Latin America's indigenous peoples, the first from India's Dalit community, and the first active head of a religious congregation. He also appointed Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost in 2023, who later became Pope Leo XIV following Francis' death in April 2025. Following the 2024 consistory, 110 of the cardinal electors had been appointed by Francis, 24 by Pope Benedict XVI, and 6 by Pope John Paul II. Each of Francis' consistories increased the number of cardinal electors from at or less than the set limit of 120 to a number higher than 120, as high as 140 in 2024, surpassing the record 135 set by Pope John Paul II in 2001 and 2003. Since 2 June 2023, two-thirds of the cardinal electors have been cardinals created by Francis. The December 2024 consistory increased that to about 79%, and 81% of the electors who participated in the 2025 papal conclave were created by Francis. Francis shifted membership in the College of Cardinals away from Europe. This means that the conclave that chose his successor was the first where Europeans did not account for a majority of electors, instead only making up 40% of electors.
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| No. | Name | Title when named cardinal | Country |
| 1. | Pietro Parolin (b. 1955) | Secretary of State | Italy |
| 2. | Lorenzo Baldisseri (b. 1940) | Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops | Italy |
| 3. | Gerhard Ludwig Müller (b. 1947) | Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith | Germany |
| 4. | Beniamino Stella (b. 1941) | Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy | Italy |
| 5. | Vincent Gerard Nichols (b. 1945) | Archbishop of Westminster | United Kingdom |
| 6. | Leopoldo José Brenes Solórzano (b. 1949) | Archbishop of Managua | Nicaragua |
| 7. | Gérald Cyprien Lacroix, I.S.P.X. (b. 1957) | Archbishop of Quebec | Canada |
| 8. | Jean-Pierre Kutwa (b. 1945) | Archbishop of Abidjan | Ivory Coast |
| 9. | Orani João Tempesta, O.Cist. (b. 1950) | Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro | Brazil |
| 10. | Gualtiero Bassetti (b. 1942) | Archbishop of Perugia-Città della Pieve | Italy |
| 11. | Mario Aurelio Poli (b. 1947) | Archbishop of Buenos Aires | Argentina |
| 12. | Andrew Yeom Soo-jung (b. 1943) | Archbishop of Seoul | South Korea |
| 13. | Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, S.D.B. (b. 1942) | Archbishop of Santiago de Chile | Chile |
| 14. | Philippe Nakellentuba Ouédraogo (b. 1945) | Archbishop of Ouagadougou | Burkina Faso |
| 15. | Orlando Beltrán Quevedo, O.M.I. (b. 1939) | Archbishop of Cotabato | Philippines |
| 16. | Chibly Langlois (b. 1958) | Bishop of Les Cayes | Haiti |
| 17. | Loris Francesco Capovilla (1915–2016) | Prelate Emeritus of Loreto | Italy |
| 18. | Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, C.M.F. (1929–2019) | Archbishop Emeritus of Pamplona y Tudela | Spain |
| 19. | Kelvin Edward Felix (1933–2024) | Archbishop Emeritus of Castries | St. Lucia |
| No. | Name | Title when named cardinal | Country |
| 1. | Dominique Mamberti (b. 1952) | Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura | France |
| 2. | Manuel José Macário do Nascimento Clemente (b. 1948) | Patriarch of Lisbon | Portugal |
| 3. | Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, C.M. (b. 1948) | Archbishop of Addis Abeba | Ethiopia |
| 4. | John Atcherley Dew (b. 1948) | Archbishop of Wellington | New Zealand |
| 5. | Edoardo Menichelli (1939–2025) | Archbishop of Ancona-Osimo | Italy |
| 6. | Pierre Nguyễn Văn Nhơn (b. 1938) | Archbishop of Hanoi | Vietnam |
| 7. | Alberto Suárez Inda (b. 1939) | Archbishop of Morelia | Mexico |
| 8. | Charles Maung Bo, S.D.B. (b. 1948) | Archbishop of Yangon | Myanmar |
| 9. | Francis Xavier Kriengsak Kovitvanit (b. 1949) | Archbishop of Bangkok | Thailand |
| 10. | Francesco Montenegro (b. 1946) | Archbishop of Agrigento | Italy |
| 11. | Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet, S.D.B. (b. 1959) | Archbishop of Montevideo | Uruguay |
| 12. | Ricardo Blázquez Pérez (b. 1942) | Archbishop of Valladolid | Spain |
| 13. | José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán, O.A.R. (b. 1944) | Bishop of David | Panama |
| 14. | Arlindo Gomes Furtado (b. 1949) | Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde | Cape Verde |
| 15. | Soane Patita Paini Mafi (b. 1961) | Bishop of Tonga | Tonga |
| 16. | José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez (1919–2019) | Archbishop Emeritus of Manizales | Colombia |
| 17. | Luigi De Magistris (1926–2022) | Pro-Major Penitentiary Emeritus | Italy |
| 18. | Karl-Josef Rauber (1934–2023) | Apostolic Nuncio (retired) | Germany |
| 19. | Luis Héctor Villalba (b. 1934) | Archbishop Emeritus of Tucumán | Argentina |
| 20. | Júlio Duarte Langa (b. 1927) | Bishop Emeritus of Xai-Xai | Mozambique |
| No. | Name | Title when named cardinal | Country |
| 1. | Mario Zenari (b. 1946) | Apostolic Nuncio to Syria | Italy |
| 2. | Dieudonné Nzapalainga, C.S.Sp. (b. 1967) | Archbishop of Bangui | Central African Republic |
| 3. | Carlos Osoro Sierra (b. 1945) | Archbishop of Madrid | Spain |
| 4. | Sérgio da Rocha (b. 1959) | Archbishop of Brasília | Brazil |
| 5. | Blase Joseph Cupich (b. 1949) | Archbishop of Chicago | United States |
| 6. | Patrick D'Rozario, C.S.C. (b. 1943) | Archbishop of Dhaka | Bangladesh |
| 7. | Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo (b. 1944) | Archbishop of Mérida | Venezuela |
| 8. | Jozef De Kesel (b. 1947) | Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels | Belgium |
| 9. | Maurice Piat, C.S.Sp. (b. 1941) | Bishop of Port-Louis | Mauritius |
| 10. | Kevin Joseph Farrell (b. 1947) | Prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life | United States |
| 11. | Carlos Aguiar Retes (b. 1950) | Archbishop of Tlalnepantla | Mexico |
| 12. | John Ribat, M.S.C. (b. 1957) | Archbishop of Port Moresby | Papua New Guinea |
| 13. | Joseph William Tobin, C.Ss.R. (b. 1952) | Archbishop of Indianapolis | United States |
| 14. | Anthony Soter Fernandez (1932–2020) | Archbishop Emeritus of Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia |
| 15. | Renato Corti (1936–2020) | Bishop Emeritus of Novara | Italy |
| 16. | Sebastian Koto Khoarai, O.M.I. (1929–2021) | Bishop Emeritus of Mohale's Hoek | Lesotho |
| 17. | Ernest Simoni (b. 1928) | Priest from the Archdiocese of Shkodrë-Pult | Albania |
| No. | Name | Title when named cardinal | Country |
| 1. | Jean Zerbo (b. 1943) | Archbishop of Bamako | Mali |
| 2. | Juan José Omella i Omella (b. 1946) | Archbishop of Barcelona | Spain |
| 3. | Anders Arborelius, O.C.D. (b. 1949) | Bishop of Stockholm | Sweden |
| 4. | Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, I.V.D. (b. 1944) | Apostolic Vicar of Paksé | Laos |
| 5. | Gregorio Rosa Chávez (b. 1942) | Auxiliary Bishop of San Salvador | El Salvador |
| No. | Name | Title when named cardinal | Country |
| 1. | Louis Raphael I Sako (b. 1948) | Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans | Iraq |
| 2. | Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, S.J. (b. 1944) | Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith | Spain |
| 3. | Angelo De Donatis (b. 1954) | Vicar General of Rome | Italy |
| 4. | Giovanni Angelo Becciu (b. 1948) | Substitute of the Secretariat of State | Italy |
| 5. | Konrad Krajewski (b. 1963) | Almoner of the Office of Papal Charities | Poland |
| 6. | Joseph Coutts (b. 1945) | Archbishop of Karachi | Pakistan |
| 7. | António Augusto dos Santos Marto (b. 1947) | Bishop of Leiria-Fátima | Portugal |
| 8. | Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimeno, S.J. (b. 1944) | Archbishop of Huancayo | Peru |
| 9. | Désiré Tsarahazana (b. 1954) | Archbishop of Toamasina | Madagascar |
| 10. | Giuseppe Petrocchi (b. 1948) | Archbishop of L'Aquila | Italy |
| 11. | Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda (b. 1949) | Archbishop of Osaka | Japan |
| 12. | Sergio Obeso Rivera (1931–2019) | Archbishop Emeritus of Xalapa | Mexico |
| 13. | Toribio Ticona Porco (b. 1937) | Prelate Emeritus of Corocoro | Bolivia |
| 14. | Aquilino Bocos Merino, C.M.F. (b. 1938) | Superior General Emeritus of the Claretians | Spain |
| No. | Name | Title when named cardinal | Country |
| 1. | Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot M.C.C.J. (1952–2024) | President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue | Spain |
| 2. | José Tolentino Calaça de Mendonça (b. 1965) | Librarian & Archivist of the Roman Church | Portugal |
| 3. | Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo (b. 1950) | Archbishop of Jakarta | Indonesia |
| 4. | Juan de la Caridad García Rodríguez (b. 1948) | Archbishop of San Cristóbal de la Habana | Cuba |
| 5. | Fridolin Ambongo Besungu O.F.M. Cap. (b. 1960) | Archbishop of Kinshasa | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| 6. | Jean-Claude Hollerich S.J. (b. 1958) | Archbishop of Luxembourg | Luxembourg |
| 7. | Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri (b. 1947) | Bishop of Huehuetenango | Guatemala |
| 8. | Matteo Maria Zuppi (b. 1955) | Archbishop of Bologna | Italy |
| 9. | Cristóbal López Romero S.D.B. (b. 1952) | Archbishop of Rabat | Morocco |
| 10. | Michael Czerny S.J. (b. 1946) | Undersecretary of the Migrant and Refugee Section of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development | Canada |
| 11. | Michael Louis Fitzgerald M.Afr. (b. 1937) | Apostolic Nuncio (retired) | United Kingdom |
| 12. | Sigitas Tamkevicius S.J. (b. 1938) | Archbishop Emeritus of Kaunas | Lithuania |
| 13. | Eugenio Dal Corso P.S.D.P. (1939–2024) | Bishop Emeritus of Benguela | Angola |
| No. | Name | Title when named cardinal | Country |
| 1. | Mario Grech (b. 1957) | Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops | Malta |
| 2. | Marcello Semeraro (b. 1947) | Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints | Italy |
| 3. | Antoine Kambanda (b. 1958) | Archbishop of Kigali | Rwanda |
| 4. | Wilton Daniel Gregory (b. 1947) | Archbishop of Washington | United States |
| 5. | Jose Fuerte Advincula (b. 1952) | Archbishop of Capiz | Philippines |
| 6. | Celestino Aós Braco O.F.M.Cap. (b. 1945) | Archbishop of Santiago | Chile |
| 7. | Cornelius Sim (1951–2021) | Apostolic Vicar of Brunei Darussalam | Brunei |
| 8. | Augusto Paolo Lojudice (b. 1964) | Archbishop of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino | Italy |
| 9. | Mauro Gambetti O.F.M. Conv. (b. 1965) | Custos emeritus of the Sacred Convent of Assisi | Italy |
| 10. | Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel (b. 1940) | Bishop Emeritus of San Cristóbal de Las Casas | Mexico |
| 11. | Silvano Maria Tomasi C.S. (b. 1940) | Apostolic nuncio (retired) | Italy |
| 12. | Raniero Cantalamessa O.F.M. Cap. (b. 1934) | Preacher for the Papal Household | Italy |
| 13. | Enrico Feroci (b. 1940) | Parish priest for Santa Maria del Divino Amore a Castel di Leva | Italy |
| No. | Name | Title when named cardinal | Country |
| 1. | Arthur Roche (b. 1950) | Prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments | United Kingdom |
| 2. | Lazarus You Heung-sik (b. 1951) | Prefect of the Dicastery for the Clergy | South Korea |
| 3. | Fernando Vérgez Alzaga L.C. (b. 1945) | President of the Pontifical Commission and Governorate for the Vatican City State | Spain |
| 4. | Jean-Marc Aveline (b. 1958) | Archbishop of Marseille | France |
| 5. | Peter Ebere Okpaleke (b. 1963) | Bishop of Ekwulobia | Nigeria |
| 6. | Leonardo Ulrich Steiner O.F.M. (b. 1950) | Archbishop of Manaus | Brazil |
| 7. | Filipe Neri Ferrão (b. 1953) | Archbishop of Goa and Daman | India |
| 8. | Robert Walter McElroy (b. 1954) | Bishop of San Diego | United States |
| 9. | Virgílio do Carmo da Silva S.D.B. (b. 1967) | Archbishop of Díli | East Timor |
| 10. | Oscar Cantoni (b. 1950) | Bishop of Como | Italy |
| 11. | Anthony Poola (b. 1961) | Archbishop of Hyderabad | India |
| 12. | Paulo Cezar Costa (b. 1967) | Archbishop of Brasília | Brazil |
| 13. | Richard Kuuia Baawobr M.Afr. (1959–2022) | Bishop of Wa | Ghana |
| 14. | William Goh (b. 1957) | Archbishop of Singapore | Singapore |
| 15. | Adalberto Martínez Flores (b. 1951) | Archbishop of Asunción | Paraguay |
| 16. | Giorgio Marengo I.M.C. (b. 1974) | Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar | Mongolia |
| 17. | Jorge Enrique Jiménez Carvajal C.J.M. (b. 1942) | Archbishop Emeritus of Cartagena | Colombia |
| 18. | Arrigo Miglio (b. 1942) | Archbishop Emeritus of Cagliari | Italy |
| 19. | Gianfranco Ghirlanda S.J. (b. 1942) | Rector Emeritus of the Pontifical Gregorian University | Italy |
| 20. | Fortunato Frezza (b. 1942) | Canon of the Chapter of Saint Peter's | Italy |
| No. | Name | Title when named cardinal | Country |
| 1. | Robert Francis Prevost O.S.A. (b. 1955) | Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops | United States |
| 2. | Claudio Gugerotti (b. 1955) | Prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches | Italy |
| 3. | Víctor Manuel Fernández (b. 1962) | Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith | Argentina |
| 4. | Emil Paul Tscherrig (b. 1947) | Apostolic Nuncio to Italy | Switzerland |
| 5. | Christophe Pierre (b. 1946) | Apostolic Nuncio to the United States | France |
| 6. | Pierbattista Pizzaballa O.F.M. (b. 1965) | Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem | Jerusalem |
| 7. | Stephen Brislin (b. 1956) | Archbishop of Cape Town | South Africa |
| 8. | Ángel Sixto Rossi S.J. (b. 1958) | Archbishop of Córdoba | Argentina |
| 9. | Luis José Rueda Aparicio (b. 1962) | Archbishop of Bogotá | Colombia |
| 10. | Grzegorz Ryś (b. 1964) | Archbishop of Łódź | Poland |
| 11. | Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla (b. 1964) | Archbishop of Juba | South Sudan |
| 12. | José Cobo Cano (b. 1965) | Archbishop of Madrid | Spain |
| 13. | Protase Rugambwa (b. 1960) | Coadjutor Archbishop of Tabora | Tanzania |
| 14. | Sebastian Francis (b. 1951) | Bishop of Penang | Malaysia |
| 15. | Stephen Chow Sau-yan S.J. (b. 1959) | Bishop of Hong Kong | Hong Kong (China) |
| 16. | François-Xavier Bustillo O.F.M. Conv. (b. 1968) | Bishop of Ajaccio | France |
| 17. | Américo Manuel Alves Aguiar (b. 1973) | Bishop-elect of Setúbal | Portugal |
| 18. | Ángel Fernández Artime S.D.B. (b. 1960) | Rector Major of the Salesians | Spain |
| 19. | Agostino Marchetto (b. 1940) | Apostolic Nuncio | Italy |
| 20. | Diego Rafael Padrón Sánchez (b. 1939) | Archbishop Emeritus of Cumaná | Venezuela |
| 21. | Luis Pascual Dri O.F.M. Cap. (1927–2025) | Confessor, Shrine of Our Lady of Pompei [es], Buenos Aires | Argentina |
| No. | Name | Title when named cardinal | Country |
| 1. | Angelo Acerbi (b. 1925) | Apostolic Nuncio | Italy |
| 2. | Carlos Gustavo Castillo Mattasoglio (b. 1950) | Archbishop of Lima | Peru |
| 3. | Vicente Bokalic Iglic C.M. (b. 1952) | Archbishop of Santiago del Estero | Argentina |
| 4. | Luis Cabrera Herrera O.F.M. (b. 1955) | Archbishop of Guayaquil | Ecuador |
| 5. | Fernando Natalio Chomalí Garib (b. 1957) | Metropolitan Archbishop of Santiago de Chile | Chile |
| 6. | Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi S.V.D. (b. 1958) | Archbishop of Tokyo | Japan |
| 7. | Pablo Virgilio Siongco David (b. 1959) | Bishop of Caloocan | Philippines |
| 8. | Ladislav Nemet S.V.D. (b. 1956) | Metropolitan Archbishop of Belgrade | Serbia |
| 9. | Jaime Spengler O.F.M. (b. 1960) | Archbishop of Porto Alegre | Brazil |
| 10. | Ignace Bessi Dogbo (b. 1961) | Archbishop of Abidjan | Côte d'Ivoire |
| 11. | Jean-Paul Vesco O.P. (b. 1962) | Archbishop of Algiers | Algeria |
| 12. | Dominique Mathieu O.F.M. Conv (b. 1963) | Archbishop of Tehran–Isfahan | Iran |
| 13. | Roberto Repole (b. 1967) | Archbishop of Turin | Italy |
| 14. | Baldassare Reina (b. 1970) | Vicar General of His Holiness for the Diocese of Rome | Italy |
| 15. | Frank Leo (b. 1971) | Archbishop of Toronto | Canada |
| 16. | Rolandas Makrickas (b. 1972) | Coadjutor Archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore | Lithuania |
| 17. | Mykola Bychok C.Ss.R. (b. 1980) | Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saints Peter and Paul of Melbourne | Australia |
| 18. | Timothy Radcliffe O.P. (b. 1945) | Master Emeritus of the Order of Preachers | United Kingdom |
| 19. | Fabio Baggio C.S. (b. 1965) | Under Secretary for Migrants and Refugees of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development | Italy |
| 20. | George Koovakad (b. 1973) | Official in the Secretariat of State | India |
| 21. | Domenico Battaglia (b. 1963) | Archbishop of Naples | Italy |
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- Countries first represented among cardinals created by Francis, by consistory, with those represented in the College for
- The number of electors has been at or below 120 before each of Francis' consistories: 2014 106 2015 110 2016 108 2017 11
- In 1971, when Paul VI instituted an age limit of 80 for cardinals to participate in electing a pope, the number of cardi
- The February 2014 consistory brought the number of cardinal electors to 122, but the 80th birthday of Cardinal Jean-Bapt
- The February 2015 consistory increased the number to 125, but the 80th birthdays of Cardinals Antonios Naguib and Justin
- The November 2016 consistory resulted in 121 electors, which fell to 120 with the 80th birthday of Cardinal Théodore-Adr
- The June 2017 consistory brought the number of cardinal electors to 121, and it declined to 120 when Cardinal Carlo Caff
- After the 2020 consistory, the number of electors exceeded 120 for 11 months and 9 days, from 28 November 2020 to 7 Nove
- The cardinal electors who reach their 80th birthdays following the 2022 consistory are: Gregorio Rosa Chávez on 3 Septem
- 207 cardinals at 2013 conclave minus 1 cardinal elected pope (Bergoglio) minus 7 cardinals who died before the 2014 cons
- 218 cardinals at previous consistory minus 11 cardinals who died before the 2015 consistory (Policarpo, Delly, Cé, Lourd
- Tobin was appointed Archbishop of Newark on 7 November 2016, but was not installed there until 6 January 2017. He was ne
- 228 cardinals at previous consistory minus 8 cardinals who died before the 2017 consistory (Arns, Agustoni, Connell, Vlk
- 225 cardinals at previous consistory minus 13 cardinals who died before the 2018 consistory (Meisner, Tettamanzi, Murphy
- Aquilino Bocos Merino was consecrated a bishop on 16 June 2018.
- 226 cardinals at previous consistory minus 13 cardinals who died before the 2019 consistory (Tauran, Sebastián Aguilar,
- When compiling statistics, the Holy See associates Curial officials with their citizenship, but for an ordinary it uses
- Michael Czerny was consecrated a bishop on 4 October 2019.
- The last was Fr. Antonio Maria Panebianco, elevated on 27 September 1861 by Pope Pius IX.
- The last cardinal archbishop of Siena was Antonio Felice Zondadari, who was elevated on 23 February 1801 by Pope Pius VI
- Mauro Gambetti was consecrated a bishop on 22 November 2020.
- Enrico Feroci was consecrated a bishop on 15 November 2020.
- Fortunato Frezza was consecrated a bishop on 23 July 2022.
- Elected as Pope Leo XIV (2025–present)
- The Holy See, in its statistical report of the College of Cardinals, lists "Jerusalem" as Pizzaballa's.
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