Cardinals not eligible to vote
In addition to the new cardinal electors, Pope Francis will also give the red hat to two archbishops and one priest over the age of 80, who would be ineligible to participate in a papal conclave. The Pope said that “they have distinguished themselves in their service to the Church.”
Jul 21, 2023
Archbishop Agostino Marchetto, Apostolic Nuncio
For Pope Francis, he is the greatest hermeneutic of the Second Vatican Council. Born in Vicenza on August 28, 1940, he attended schools at the Patronage Leone XIII in Vicenza, then entered the seminary and was ordained a priest at Vicenza Cathedral on June 28, 1964. On Aug 31, 1985, he was appointed Titular Archbishop of Astigi with the office of Apostolic Nuncio to Madagascar and Mauritius. On Dec 7, 1990, he was transferred as Apostolic Nuncio to Tanzania, and on May 18, 1994, as Apostolic Nuncio to Belarus. On Nov 6, 2001, Pope John Paul II appointed him secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People. On Aug 25, 2010, upon reaching the age of 70, he retired from his post to devote himself to studying, in particular the hermeneutics of the Second Vatican Council. In addition to Italian, he speaks French, English and Spanish.
Archbishop Diego Rafael Padrón Sánchez
He is currently parish priest of La Inmaculada de Camoruco, in the Archdiocese of Valencia in Venezuela. Born in Montalbán, on May 17, 1939, he holds a degree in Biblical Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and a diploma in Oriental Biblical Sciences from the Franciscanum Institute in Jerusalem-Israel. He is a professor of Spanish, literature and Latin, a graduate of the Professional Institute of Teaching at the Pedagogical Institute in Caracas. Ordained a priest on Aug 4, 1963, he was parish priest in several parishes in Valencia. In 1990, Pope John Paul II appointed him Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Caracas and Titular Bishop of Gisipa, in 1994 he was Bishop of the Diocese of Maturín and in 2002 Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cumaná. He was President of the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference for two consecutive periods.
Fr Luis Pascual Dri
Fr Luis is 96 years old and continues to serve the Lord every day by administering the Sacrament of Reconciliation. He was born in Federación, Entre Ríos Province, Argentina, on April 17, 1927, into a family where all but one of the children consecrated themselves to God in the religious life. From a very young age he worked in the fields, tending animals and also planting corn and alfalfa. He entered the Capuchin seminary in January 1938 at the age of 11, and took the Capuchin habit on Feb 21, 1945. On March 29, 1952, he was ordained a priest in the Cathedral of Montevideo. Director of the San Francisco de Carrasco Minor Seminary in 1953, in 1961, he specialised in Europe as formator of novices. In 1962 he began his mission as educator at the Colegio y Liceo Secco Illa de Uruguay, until 1974. A parish priest in several churches, at the beginning of 2000, he was transferred to the Shrine Ntra. Sra. De Pompeya, Buenos Aires, where he spent three years, then was appointed parish priest in Mar del Plata. In 2007, he returned again to the Shrine of Nuestra Señora de Pompeya.
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