{"id":58709,"date":"2017-02-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/02\/01\/lithuanian-cardinal-audrys-backis-turns-80-years-old\/"},"modified":"2017-02-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T23:00:00","slug":"lithuanian-cardinal-audrys-backis-turns-80-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/02\/01\/lithuanian-cardinal-audrys-backis-turns-80-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Cardinal Audrys Ba\u010dkis turns 80 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class='paragraph'><span style='font-weight: bold;'>The archbishop of Vilnius<\/span> (Lithuania)<span style='font-weight: bold;'> Audrys Juozas Ba\u010dkis turns 80 years old, and thus loses his right to enter a conclave<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'>His father was a diplomat, and in 1937, a year after the future cardinal was born, his entire family moved to Paris.<\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'>World War II, and the Soviet Union, prevented them from returning home until 50 years later.<\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='font-weight: bold;'>Cardinal Ba\u010dkis has been a diplomat of the Holy See for years, and has worked in the Netherlands, Nigeria, Turkey and Costa Rica.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='font-weight: bold;'>After the fall of the Berlin Wall, John Paul II appointed him archbishop of Vilnius, Lithuania. Since then, his priority has been to rebuild the structures of the Catholic Church in the country and to help those in need.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='font-weight: bold;'>John Paul II made him a cardinal in 2001.<\/span> ;<\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'>Once they turn 80, Cardinals lose the right to vote in a conclave. <span style='font-weight: bold;'>The current number of cardinal electors stands at 119. ;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'><br \/>\n\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>JMB<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 1, 2017. The number of cardinal electors descends to 119.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":58710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/SErSO6AWsi8","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcardbackis80int.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58709"}],"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=58709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}