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Vatican, Oct. 17, 2007 (CWNews.com) - At his regular weekly public audience on October 17, Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) confirmed plans for a consistory on November 24, and named the 23 new members who will be added to the College of Cardinals.

Of the new cardinals, 18 will be under the age of 80 and thus eligible to participate in a papal election. After the consistory there will be a total of 202 members of the college, including 121 cardinal-electors. (There are currently 104 electors, but Cardinal Angelo Sodano (bio - news), the former Secretary of State and current dean of the college, will turn 80 on the eve of the consistory.)

The Holy Father disclosed that he had intended to name another new cardinal: Bishop Ignacy Jez, a Dachau survivor who was the former Bishop of Koszalin-Kolobrzeg, Poland. But Bishop Jez died on October 16, at the age of 93.

The cardinal-electors who will receive their red hats at the November consistory are:

1. Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, the former sositituto who is now prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches;
2. Archbishop John Patrick Foley, the longtime president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, now serving as grandmaster of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre;
3. Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, the Vatican's former Secretary for Relations with States, now the president of the Vatican City governoratel;
4. Archbishop Paul Josef Cordes, the president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum;
5. Archbishop Angelo Comastri, the archpriest of St. Peter's basilica and vicar general for Vatican City;
6. Archbishop Stanislaw Rylko, the president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity;
7. Archbishop Raffaele Farina, the Vatican archivist;
8. Archbishop Agustin Garcia-Gasco Vicente of Valencia, Spain;
9. Archbishop Sean Baptist Brady of Armagh, Ireland;
10. Archbishop Lluis Martinez Sistach of Barcelona, Spain;
11. Archbishop Andre Vingt-Trois of Paris, France;
12. Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco of Genoa, Italy;
13. Archbishop Theodore-Adrien Sarr of Dakar, Senegal;
14. Archbishop Oswald Gracias of Bombay, India;
15. Archbishop Francisco Robles Ortega of Monterrey, Mexico;
16. Archbishop Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, US;
17. Archbishop Odilio Pedro Scherer of Sao Paulo, Brazil;
18. Archbishop John Njue of Nairobi, Kenya

1. Father Umberto Betti, the former rector of the Pontifical Lateran University;
2. Archbishop Giovanni Coppa, a veteran Vatican diplomat;
3. Patriarch Emmanuel III Delly of Babylon, the head of Iraq's Chaldean Catholic Church;
4. Archbishop Estanislao Esteban Karlic, the former Archbishop of Parana, Argentina; and
5. Father Urbano Navarrete, the former rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University.