• Papabile (/pəˈpɑːbɪleɪ/ pə-PAH-bil-ay, UK also /-li/ -⁠ee, Italian: [paˈpaːbile]; pl. papabili; lit. 'pop(e)able' or 'able to be pope') is an unofficial...
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    cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 2003. He has been widely regarded as papabile, that is, a candidate for election to the papacy. The Tablet described...
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    in 1953. A protege of Pope Pius XII, he was, at one point, considered a papabile. Siri was born in Genoa to Nicolò and Giulia (née Bellavista) Siri. He...
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    Giovanni Benelli (12 May 1921 – 26 October 1982) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Florence from 1977 until...
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    likely choices than the others – these are the papabili, the plural for papabile, an Italian word which is practically rendered into English as "pope-able"...
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    one of the principal advisors to Pope John Paul II and was considered papabile at the papal conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI in 2005. Arinze was...
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    Castrillón participated in the 2005 papal conclave and was himself considered papabile, a possible successor to the papacy. Pope Benedict XVI confirmed him as...
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    April 2005, Bergoglio attended his funeral and was considered one of the papabile for succession to the papacy. He participated as a cardinal elector in...
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    64 years old, and was also one of several prelates from Africa estimated as papabile for the Papacy in the papal conclave of 2013. Many important members of...
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    Nazism and Islamic terrorism.[citation needed] Sarah has been mentioned as papabile, a possible candidate for the papacy, by international media outlets such...
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    anti-Council pope could have severely curbed the Council's role. The leading papabile candidates were Giovanni Battista Montini of Milan, who had not been a...
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    securing additional votes. The bookmakers of Rome offered bets on the papabile, an early example of gambling on papal elections; Medici had the best odds...
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    Mass celebrated each day by a senior cleric, often a cardinal elector or papabile, who had the opportunity to preach a homily. Celebrants included Bernard...
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    various cardinals) disagree on the number of votes received by the three papabile; on the first scrutiny. Baumgartner regards as the most accurate the account...
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    Office. Retrieved 4 February 2023. Allen Jr., John L. (2 March 2013). "Papabile of the Day: The Men Who Could Be Pope". National Catholic Reporter. Retrieved...
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    come." Although some cardinals seem to have viewed Montini as a likely papabile candidate, possibly receiving some votes in the 1958 conclave, he had the...
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    Domenico Tardini (29 February 1888 – 30 July 1961) was a longtime aide to Pope Pius XII in the Secretariat of State. Pope John XXIII named him Cardinal...
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    saw it was becoming a totalitarian regime. La Fontaine was viewed as "papabile" in the 1922 papal conclave that elected Pope Pius XI and was a serious...
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  • a candidate is frequently discussed but never chosen.[citation needed] Papabile Veepstakes See, e.g., Ben Smith, Richardson Defense Raises Questions, Politico...
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    Roncalli left Venice for the conclave in Rome well aware that he was papabile, and after eleven ballots, was elected to succeed the late Pius XII, so...
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    greater good, the good of the Church of Christ." Parolin has been called papabile, a candidate to succeed Francis as pope. Pope Francis raised him to the...
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