By Currents News
In what will be the largest conclave in history, 133 cardinals will take part in the proceedings—13 more than a previously held limit Pope Paul VI informally set in 1975.
Among those 133, Pope Francis created 108 of those red hats, roughly 80 percent of the voting body.
The highest age group of cardinals were born in the 1950s, with 51 of them in the voting body. Forty eight of them were born in the ’40s, 27 in the ’60s, and six in the ’70s. The youngest in the College of Cardinals was born in 1980, making him 45 years old.
As for the year that has seen the most cardinals, 13 men were born in 1947.