Event class: pope, cardinal, appointed, archbishop, created, congregation, paul, consistory, pope benedict xvi, john

Events with high posterior probability

Edward Egan	He reached age 80 on April 2, 2012, and from then on he would be able to participate in discussions prior to conclave voting, but not enter a conclave.
Jean-Claude Turcotte	He was a voting member (cardinal elector) of the College of Cardinals in the 2005 papal conclave.
Pope Leo XIII	Cardinal Secretary of State Luigi Lambruschini introduced him to Vatican congregations and to Pope Gregory XVI, who appointed Pecci on 14 February 1837, as personal prelate even before he was ordained priest on 31 December 1837, by the Vicar of Rome.
Antonio Mar?a Rouco Varela	John Paul II created him Cardinal-Priest of S. Lorenzo in Damaso in the consistory of 21 February 1998.
Valerio Valeri	Cardinal Valeri was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1958 papal conclave that selected Pope John XXIII, who had earlier succeeded him as the French nuncio.
Michael Augustine (bishop)	He was consecrated a bishop at the age of 45 years by then Archbishop Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy (later Cardinal) the then Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples with co-consecraters Archbishop Venmani S. Selvanather of Pondicherry and Archbishop Anthony Rayappa Arulappa of Madras as on 29 March 1978, the episcopal ordination mass was attended by many bishops from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Pondicherry regions and many priests and laity attended.
Jorge Medina	Medina was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave, and, following the conclusion of the conclave, as Cardinal Protodeacon (the senior-most cardinal deacon), he had the honor of announcing to the world the election of Pope Benedict XVI with the famous Habemus Papam formula, being the first non-Italian to do so ; as protodeacon, Cardinal Medina also imposed the petrine pallium on Pope Benedict XVI.
Basilio Pompilj	On 9 July 1930, he was made Vice - Dean of the College of Cardinals, remaining in that position until his death.
Alessandro Verde	He was appointed Secretary of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints on 26 June 1915.
Benedetto Aloisi Masella	Aloisi Masella resigned as Prefect of the Discipline of the Sacraments on 11 January 1968.
Guy Sansaricq	His age induced resignation was formally accepted on 6 October 2010, Bishop Sansaricq's 76th birthday.
Agust?n Garc?a-Gasco Vicente	He lost his right to voting in papal conclave on 12 February 2011, when he turned 80.
Tarcisio Bertone	On 4 April 2007, Benedict XVI also appointed Cardinal Bertone as Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church (or Chamberlain).
Domenico Calcagno	It was announced on 6 January 2012 that he would be created a cardinal on 18 February along with 21 others.
Antonio Poma	Pope Paul VI created him Cardinal-Priest of S. Luca a Via Prenestina in the consistory of 28 April 1969.
Peter McKeefry	On 28 April 1969 McKeefry was proclaimed by Pope Paul VI a Cardinal-Priest of Immacolata al Tiburtino.
William Benedict Friend	On 22 October 2006, Bishop Friend sent the mandatory letter to Pope Benedict XVI resigning the diocese as he had reached the age of 75.
Alfons Maria Stickler	He chose to be raised to the rank of Cardinal-Priest (with the same title) on 29 January 1996, after spending ten years as a Cardinal Deacon.
Agostino Vallini	On 27 May 2004, he was appointed Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, more commonly known as the Apostolic Signatura, resigning from the See of Albano.
Ant?nio de Castro Mayer	On 1 July 1988, the Holy See declared Castro Mayer by name to have been automatically excommunicated for participating on 30 June 1988 in the consecration, together with Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, of four bishops against papal mandate (see Ecône Consecrations).
Wilhelm Schraml	Following canon law, Schraml offered his resignation to the pope in 2010, upon reaching the age of 75.
Filippo Giustini	After becoming Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Bishops and Regulars on April 28, 1902, he was made counselor of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office on the following August 27.
Giulio Andreotti	In 1982 Andreotti asked Carabinieri General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa to accept the position of Prefect of Palermo.
Desmond Connell	He was created Cardinal-Priest by Pope John Paul II at the Consistory in Rome on 21 February 2001 with the Titulus S. Silvestri in Capite.
Eug?nio Sales	He served as archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro for thirty years until his resignation was accepted in 2001, when he had already passed the maximum age for voting in a papal conclave.
Francesco Ragonesi	He was appointed as Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura by Pope Pius on 9 March 1926.
Agostino Casaroli	Although not made a cardinal with his close associate Giovanni Benelli in 1977, Casaroli was made a Cardinal-Priest of Ss.
Marc Ouellet	Ouellet was named titular archbishop of Agropoli and secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity on 3 March 2001.
Leonardo Sandri	The press named Cardinal Sandri as a papabile (a possible or likely successor for election to the Papacy) following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, effective 28 February 2013.
Michele Lega	After ten years as a cardinal-deacon he opted for the order of cardinal priests and his deaconry was elevated pro hac vice to title in 1924.
Tarcisio Bertone	Bertone was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI.
Angelo Bagnasco	On 27 June 2007, Archbishop Bagnasco, along with several other prelates, attended a briefing at the Apostolic Palace on Pope Benedict's impending motu proprio allowing wider celebration of the Tridentine Mass.
Attilio Nicora	Nicora was proclaimed a Cardinal-Deacon of San Filippo Neri in Eurosia in 2003 by Pope John Paul II.
Casimiro Gennari	He was created Cardinal-Priest of San Marcello on 15 April 1901 by Pope Leo XIII.
Marc Ouellet	Ouellet was considered a contender to succeed Pope Benedict XVI, who resigned on 28 February 2013.
Giovanni Battista Re	He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI.
Christoph Moufang	On 16 April 1886 Leo XIII made Moufang a domestic prelate.
Luis Ladaria Ferrer	On 13 November 2008, he was appointed a consultor of the Congregation for Bishops 77.
Angelo Amato	Amato was created and proclaimed Cardinal-Deacon of S. Maria in Aquiro by Pope Benedict XVI in the consistory of 20 November 2010.
Philip Boyce	In May 1999 Pope John Paul II appointed him a member of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
Michele Lega	He opted for the order of cardinal bishops and the suburbicarian see of Frascati on 21 June 1926.
Benedetto Lorenzelli	On June 18, 1890, he entered the Roman Curia as a referendary prelate of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature.
Ottavio Cagiano de Azevedo	On 6 December 1915 he was named Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church, remaining in that post until his death.
Donald Wuerl	On 16 December 2013 he was appointed a member of the Congregation for Bishops.
Manuel Monteiro de Castro	It was announced on 6 January 2012 that Archbishop Monteiro de Castro would be created a cardinal on 18 February by Pope Benedict XVI.
Manuel Arteaga y Betancourt	Pope Pius XII created him Cardinal Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina in the consistory of February 18, 1946, and thus the first Cuban member of the College of Cardinals.
Giuseppe Pizzardo	He was created Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Via Lata by Pius XI in the consistory of 13 December 1937.
Jo?o Braz de Aviz	On 4 January 2011, Braz de Aviz, not a member of a religious order, was appointed prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
Arcadio Larraona Saralegui	Cardinal Larraona Saralegui was appointed Titular Archishop of Diocaesarea in Isauria on 5 April 1962, and received his episcopal consecration on the following 19 April from Pope John, with Cardinals Giuseppe Pizzardo and Benedetto Aloisi Masella serving as co-consecrators, in the Lateran Basilica.
Walter Mixa	On 21 March 2012 he was appointed a Member of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers by Pope Benedict XVI.
Dino Monduzzi	On 7 February 1998, he retired as Prefect of the Papal Household, and was created Cardinal-Deacon of San Sebastiano al Palatino by John Paul II in the consistory of 21 February 1998.
?tienne-Louis Charbonnaux	In 1870, Charbonnaux took part in the council of Vatican City and was a member of the Commission of Oriental Ritual.
Francis Arinze	On his eightieth birthday on 1 November 2012 Cardinal Arinze lost his eligibility to participate and vote in any future conclaves occurring as the result of any period of sede vacante.
Luigi Sincero	Pope Pius appointed him President of the Pontifical Commission for the Codification of the Oriental Canon Law on November 23, 1934 and President of the Pontifical Commission for the Authentic Interpretation of the Code of Canon Law.
Jos? da Costa Nunes	Pope John XXIII created him Cardinal Priest of Santa Prisca in the consistory of 19 March 1962.
Enrique Almaraz y Santos	He was created Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Montorio by Pope Pius X in the consistory of 27 November 1911.
Georg Sterzinsky	He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI.
Avery Dulles	Because he had reached the age of 80 before becoming cardinal, Dulles had exceeded the mandatory age limit of retirement ; he was never eligible to vote in a conclave (of which one occurred during his cardinalate, that of the 2005).
Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino	On Saturday, June 15, 2013, Pope Francis named Cardinal Ortega y Alamino as his Special Envoy to the closing ceremony of the National Eucharistic Congress in El Salvador, scheduled for August 11, 2013.
Valerio Valeri	He served as Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for Religious in the Roman Curia from 1953 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII.
Elio Sgreccia	Sgreccia was made Cardinal-Deacon of Sant' Angelo in Pescheria and was installed on March 12, 2011.
Gabriel-Marie Garrone	Pope Paul named him full Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education and grand chancellor of the Pontifical Gregorian University on 17 January 1968.
Miguel Obando y Bravo	He was created Cardinal-Priest of S. Giovanni Evangelista a Spinaceto on 25 May 1985, becoming the first Nicaraguan cardinal.
Federico Tedeschini	He appointed him his own successor as Archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica on 14 March 1939.
Michele Pellegrino	He was created and proclaimed Cardinal-Priest of Santissimo Nome di Gesù by Pope Paul on 26 June 1967.
Angelo Di Pietro	He was created Cardinal-Priest of Santi Bonifacio ed Alessio in the consistory of 16 January 1893 by Pope Leo XIII.
Angelo Dolci	He was created and proclaimed Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Vittoria by Pope Pius XI in the consistory of March 13, 1933.
Luis Antonio Tagle	On Tuesday, October 23, 2012, the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone read a personalized letter by Pope Benedict XVI addressed to Archbishop Tagle intending to appoint him into the College of Cardinals.
Fortunato Baldelli	Cardinal Baldelli's Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Saturday, 22 September 2012, at 6:00 pm, at The Altar of the Chair in Saint Peter's Basilica by the Cardinal Secretary of State Emeritus, Angelo Cardinal Sodano, Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals and Cardinal-Bishop of Albano and Ostia, together with other Cardinals, Archbishops, and Bishops.
Franciszek Gajowniczek	Gajowniczek was a guest of Pope Paul VI in the Vatican, when Maximilian Kolbe was beatified for his martyrdom on October 17, 1971.
Giovanni Battista Re	He is the Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Bishops, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 2001.
Luis Ladaria Ferrer	2009 & lang en #NOMINA % 20DI % 20MEMBRO % 20DELLA % 20CONGREGAZIONE % 20DELLE % 20CAUSE % 20DEI % 20SANTI He is a member of the Holy See's team charged with the dialogue with the Society of St. Pius X that began on 26 October 2009.
Alfred-Henri-Marie Baudrillart	Baudrillart was one of the cardinal electors in the 1939 papal conclave, which selected Pope Pius XII.
Agnelo Rossi	In 1970 he was appointed Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, the recently renamed Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide.
Timothy M. Dolan	On Saturday, November 30, 2013, Pope Francis named Cardinal Dolan a Member of the Congregation for Catholic Education.
Niccol? Marini	One of his last appointments was as Protector and Visitor of all the Oriental Institutes of Rome on 28 July 1922.
Desmond Connell	Connell was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI.
Paul Josef Cordes	In November 2010 he was also appointed a member of the Congregation for Bishops.
Sebastiano Martinelli	He participated in the 1903 conclave that elected Pope Pius X.
Richard Cushing	He was also one of the cardinal electors in the 1963 papal conclave, which selected Pope Paul VI.
Odilo Scherer	On Saturday, November 30, 2013, he was named a Member of the Congregation for Catholic Education by Pope Francis.
Eug?nio Sales	He was the Cardinal Protopriest of the Holy Roman Church and also the longest serving living Cardinal of the Catholic Church from 16 February 2009 until his death.
Malcolm Ranjith	On 20 October 2010 Pope Benedict XVI announced a Consistory for the creation of new Cardinals to be held on 20 November 2010, and made public the names of 24 Prelates he intended to raise to the Cardinalate on that occasion, Archbishop Ranjith being among those chosen for promotion to the Sacred College.
Carlo Sacconi	He served as Prefect of the Congregation of Ceremonies from 1884 until his death.
Bartolomeo Bacilieri	Pope Leo XIII created him Cardinal Priest of San Bartolomeo all' Isola in the consistory of 15 April 1901.
Pius Ncube	On September 11, 2007, it was announced that Pope Benedict XVI had accepted the resignation of Archbishop Pius Alick Ncube from the pastoral government of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bulawayo, in accordance with canon 401, section 2, of the Code of Canon Law, which states :'' A diocesan bishop who has become less able to fulfill his office because of ill health or some other grave cause is earnestly requested to present his resignation from office.''
Pierre Petit de Julleville	Pope Pius XII created him cardinal priest, February 18, 1946 ; Pierre Petit de Julleville received the title of S. Maria in Aquiro, February 22, 1946.
Jozef-Ernest van Roey	Pius XI created him Cardinal Priest of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in the consistory of 20 June 1927.
Alfonso Capecelatro	He was made a cardinal by Leo XIII in 1885.
Mauro Piacenza	On 13 October 2003, Pope John Paul II appointed Piacenza President of the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church and Titular Bishop of Victoriana.
Aloys Grillmeier	Pope John Paul II created him cardinal-deacon of San Nicola in Carcere on 26 November 1994.
Ra?l Silva Henr?quez	Henríquez, in accordance with canon law number 400 which requires that bishops submit their letter of resignation to the Pope upon turning 75, was relieved of his position as Archbishop of Santiago on 3 May 1983, after twenty-one years of service.
Francesco Coccopalmerio	He was appointed as a member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on 23 December 2010 for a five-year renewable term.
Valerian Gracias	He was created and proclaimed Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Via Lata in the consistory of 12 January 1953.
Agostino Vallini	Upon the death of John Paul II on 2 April 2005, Vallini and all major Vatican officials, in accord with custom, automatically lost their positions.
Ignatius Moses I Daoud	On 9 June 2007, Patriarch Emeritus Ignatius Moses I resigned his post as Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.
Giovanni Mercati	He served as Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives and Librarian of the Vatican Library from 1936 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1936.
Raymond Leo Burke	On February 5, 2011, the memorial of St. Agatha, Cardinal Burke took canonical possession of his titular church in Rome, Sant' Agata dei Goti.
Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini	Pope Pius XII created him Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo e Achilleo in the consistory of 12 January 1953.
Ignatius Persico	On 16 January 1893, he was created cardinal priest of the title of St. Peter in Chains.