Cardinal Szoka turns 80, drops from list of papal electors

Edmund Casimir Cardinal Szoka

Function: President of Governatorate of Vatican City State, Roman Curia

Title: Cardinal Priest of Ss Andrea e Gregorio al Monte Celio

Birthdate: Sept 14, 1927	Country: USA

Elevated: Jun 28, 1988	More information: www.catholic-hierarchy.org

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Cardinal Szoka turns 80, drops from list of papal electors
Sept 15, 2007
Cardinal Edmund Szoka celebrates his 80th birthday on September 14, and thus becomes ineligible to vote in a papal conclave.

Vatican, Sep. 14, 2007 (CWNews.com) - The American prelate, a former Archbishop of Detroit, is credited with restoring the Holy See to fiscal health during his tenure as head of the Vatican's prefecture for economic affairs. His successful money-management and his Polish ethnic background helped to make him a close adviser to Pope John Paul II (bio - news).

Born in Michigan and ordained to the priesthood for the Marquette diocese in 1954, Edmund Szoka became the first bishop of the newly formed diocese of Gaylord, Michigan, in 1971; he was promoted to be Archbishop of Detroit in 1981. In 1988 he was raised to the College of Cardinals by Pope John Paul, and in 1990 he was brought to the Vatican to head the prefecture of economic affairs. From 1997 until his retirement in 2006, he was president of the Vatican City governatorate.

With the removal of Cardinal Szoka from the list of electors, there are now 104 cardinals eligible to participate in a papal conclave. The next cardinal to reach the maximum age and drop from the list will be Cardinal Angelo Sodano (bio - news), the former Secretary of State and current dean of the College of Cardinals, who will turn 80 on November 23.

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