{"id":47737,"date":"2019-08-12T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2019\/08\/12\/there-now-remains-119-cardinals-electors\/"},"modified":"2019-08-12T17:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T15:48:00","slug":"there-now-remains-119-cardinals-electors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2019\/08\/12\/there-now-remains-119-cardinals-electors\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Sergio Obeso Rivera has died, there now remains 119 cardinals electors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 11, Cardinal Sergio Obeso Rivera died. He was 87-year-old. The cardinal is remembered for his pastoral work in Mexico. He presided over his country's Episcopal Conference three times.<\/p>\n<p>Due to his age he could not vote in another conclave. However, in recognition for his service he was elected a cardinal by Pope Francis at the age of 86.<\/p>\n<p>With the death of Cardinal Obeso Rivera, the College of Cardinals is now composed of 216 members, including 97 non-electors.<\/p>\n<p>However. until Aug. 2019, there will only be 119 voters for another conclave. A number less than the maximum of 120 stipulated in the Constitution Romano Pontifici Eligendo.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the total number of voters: 18 were selected by John Paul II, 44 were created by Benedict XVI and 57 by Pope Francis.<\/p>\n<p>During the remainder of 2019, five of the 119 voters will turn 80. As a consequence they will become non-electors due to the age limit.<\/p>\n<p>Although Pope Francis' announcements are unpredictable, perhaps in the coming months he will announce a consistory for the election of new cardinals.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 12th, 2019. After the death of Cardinal Sergio Obeso Rivera, the College of Cardinals is now composed of 216 members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qFcUvdB3vqE","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcardenalobesoeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcardenalobesoint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}