With the participation of 135 Cardinal .. Important details about the election of the next Pope

135 Cardinal meets an average age of 70 years, most of whom are certain by Pope Francis, the late Pope of the Vatican, in a closed electoral complex to choose a successor to him, with a strong European representation but it is declining.
It is only called the closed complex except the Cardinals who did not exceed eighty years of age, and therefore 117 Cardinal will not participate in the election of the next Pope, in a process expected to start in early May.

Cardinals from the continent of Europe

Among the voters, the ritual arrivals from the continent of Europe will be the most number in the Sistina Church, with 53 actors, or 39% of the voters. For comparison, the number of Europeans during the meeting that led to the election of Pope Francis in 2013, 60 out of 115 (52%).
After the Europeans, the Asian Cardinans (23), then the South Americans, Central America (21), Farraqa (18) and the North Americans (16), followed by Oceanians (4), according to the numbers of the Holy See.

Italy is the most representative country

Italy will be again the most representative country with the number of its rings in the complex to 17, but it remains less than in the year 2013 (28).

The United States is represented by ten Caralades and Brazil for seven, while France and Spain for 5 Caralades.
Argentina, the birthplace of the late Pope, will have 4 actors, such as Canada, India, Poland and Portugal.
The Ivory Coast will be the only African country to have more than one Cardinal in the electoral complex (two).
Added to the list of countries represented in the closed complex, Jerusalem, in terms of the Italian city Patriarch, Pyirpatista Pittsbala, who was sixty -year -old.

The average age of the participants

The average extensive life of the cruise participating in the closed complex is 70 years and 4 months.
As for the largest croup, the election is the age of the age, it is Carlos Osoro Sierra, who was appointed by Pope Francis in 2014, the President of the Bishops of Madrid (Spain), and will be 80 years on May 16.
The most recent of them is the Archbishop of Melbourne (Australia), Mecola Picot, who is 45 years old, and 69 days, and was drawn Cardinal in December.
Of the 135 Cardinal, they were called to the complex, 108 drawn by Pope Francis: 40 in Europe, 20 in Asia, 19 in Central America and South America, 15 in Africa, 10 in North America, and 4 in Oceania.
Pope Benedict XVI drew 22 cadres of them, while Pope John Paul II drew 5.