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‘College Of Cardinals’ UPDATED To Include More ‘Creation’ Data.

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by Anura Guruge
on May 11, 2024

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[This is important].

Changes in 2023

Changes in 2024

The NEW ‘Cardinals’ site UPDATED with these new images/tables.

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What I have done is added ‘who created whom‘ data. I like to have that. I was rather surprised to find that Salvador did NOT provide these numbers on a regular or consistent basis. Given all the data I have, & my still somewhat ‘OK’ numeracy, it wasn’t that difficult to interpolate back to January 1, 2023. From that point it was just grunt work. Some of you will find this data interesting & useful. It shows how the influence of the 3 popes ebbs and flows.

This is still a work in progress. Unlike dear Salvador I have other interests, other projects, other commitments …. But, please give me time. I will slowly improve on what we have. IF you can HELP, please let me know. Thanks.

A NEW ‘The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church’ Website To Augment The ‘Miranda’ Site.

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by Anura Guruge
on May 8, 2024

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The invaluable ‘Salvador Miranda’ Cardinals website went dark a year ago.

Last time we heard from dear Salvador — June 28, 2023.
Last time he updated the Website — May 8, 2023.

Click to ENLARGE. To access THE ‘Cardinals’ Website (link).

While I have NO intention of trying to emulate ALL that dear Salvador did, I do want to try and maintain an ACCURATE record of the CHANGES to the College.

Salvador’s website will EVER remain good for everything
UP TO 2023.

What I will do is maintain a list (in the form of one of my famed ‘magic’ Excel spreadsheets) of all the changes — i.e., creations, deaths, aging outs & expulsions — as of Jan. 1, 2023. So, this is the start.

The spreadsheet is done. It has some HIDDEN columns. Plus, I plan to add a few more. No point maintaining a magic Guruge spreadsheet IF I don’t milk as much data as I can. I will calculate days between changes, days between deaths, obituary demographic, etc.

This is still a work in progress. Unlike dear Salvador I have other interests, other projects, other commitments …. But, please give me time. I will slowly improve on what we have. IF you can HELP, please let me know. Thanks.

This is in memory of my friend Salvador.

I dedicated my 2020, encyclopedic, 518-page ‘The Conclave‘ book to Salvador.

I am glad I did. He was chuffed.

‘College of Cardinals’ — All The Changes Since Jan. 1, 2023.

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by Anura Guruge
on May 4, 2024

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The invaluable ‘Salvador Miranda’ Cardinals website went dark a year ago.

Last time we heard from dear Salvador — June 28, 2023.
Last time he updated the Website — May 8, 2023.

Click to ENLARGE. To access THE ‘Cardinals’ Website (link).

While I have NO intention of trying to emulate ALL that dear Salvador did, I do want to try and maintain an ACCURATE record of the CHANGES to the College.

Salvador’s website will EVER remain good for everything UP TO 2023.

What I will do is maintain a list (in the form of one of my famed ‘magic’ Excel spreadsheets) of all the changes — i.e., creations, deaths, aging outs & expulsions — as of Jan. 1, 2023. So, this is the start.

The spreadsheet is done. It has some HIDDEN columns. Plus, I plan to add a few more. No point maintaining a magic Guruge spreadsheet IF I don’t milk as much data as I can. I will calculate days between changes, days between deaths, obituary demographic, etc.

I have ALREADY created a Webpage for MY ‘College of Cardinals’. More on that later. This is but a start. SMILE.

This is in memory of my friend Salvador.

I dedicated my 2020, encyclopedic, 518-page ‘The Conclave‘ book to Salvador.

I am glad I did. He was chuffed.

Keeping The ‘Salvador Miranda’ Cardinal Obituary List ALIVE.

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by Anura Guruge
on April 28, 2024

Keeping dear Salvador’s list up to-date.

Last time we heard from dear Salvador — June 28, 2023.
Last time he updated the Website — May 8, 2023.

Click to ENLARGE. To access THE ‘Cardinals’ Website (link).

It is now close to a year since dear Salvador’s invaluable ‘Cardinals’ Website went dark.

During this time I have made numerous attempts to directly contact Salvador (via phone & e-mail) and to get an update on him. I have failed, miserably. I fear the worst. I check the local papers. Nothing that I can find. IF you know something please let me know.

By now the Website is out-of-date when it comes to what has happened in the last 11 months.

There is NO way I can update it.

But, as YOU know I am providing comprehensive Cardinal Elector demographics — with detail not even available on the Website. So, that helps (& is a consolation).

I needed to look up some necrology stuff. Of course, I couldn’t, any longer, rely on Salvador’s list. Yes, both ‘gcatholic’ & ‘catholic hierarchy’ have necrology lists — but they are NOT restricted just to cardinals. I just want the cardinals. Truth be known, I just want the cardinal electors.

So, starting today I will maintain a CARDINAL OBITUARY list. This is the start. I will put the 21st century data, from Salvador, into a spreadsheet & then BUILD upon that. OK?

Cardinal Elector Demographics — As Of April 20, 2024.

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by Anura Guruge
on April 6, 2024

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Click to ENLARGE. The 8 who will age out next — till end of 2024.

Two cardinal electors, BOTH Francis creations, will age-out by April 20, 2024 — one (from Laos) on April 8 & the other (from Spain) on April 19.

So, this is what the elector demographics will look like as of April 20, 2024.

Then we don’t have any aging out till June 8, 2024.

That the two who aged out are Francis creations means that only 72.4% of the electorate was created by Francis. That is NOT enough to ensure that the next pope will be a Francis acolyte. He needs to hold another cardinal creating consistory SOON.

Just a note. A very few cardinals have died of late (& those mostly non-electors). Keep that in mind since this will change the demographics & I will, of course, update the numbers.