In less than 24 hours, cardinals from around the world will begin the papal conclave, the process by which the next Pope will be chosen.
Nearly three weeks after the shock resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, church leaders have assembled to decide who will lead the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics.
Conclave is notoriously secretive and there is no real way of knowing who the preferiti – the men most likely to be voted the next Pope – are but these 15 men are rumoured to be the favourites.
Cardinals Tagle, Turkson and Ravasi.
Cardinal Angelo Scola of Italy.
Brazil’s Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer.
Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet.
Hungarian Cardinal Peter Erdo.
Italy’s Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi.
Ghana’s Cardinal Peter Turkson.
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New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan.
Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio.
Argentine Cardinal Leonardo Sandri.
Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle.
Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn.
Cardinal Albert Malcolm Ranjith of Sri Lanka.
Honduran Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga.
Italy’s Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco
Boston’s Cardinal Sean Patrick O’Malley.
