Rorate Caeli

Numbers

Nationalities of the new voting Cardinals:

Italians: 7
Americans: 2
Spaniard, Portuguese, Brazilian, Indian, Dutch, Canadian, Chinese, German, Czech: 1

By Continent/Region:

Europe: 12
North America: 3
Asia and Oceania: 2 (Southeast Asia/Oceania: 0)
Latin America: 1 (Spanish America: 0)
Africa:0


Residential (ordinaries of Diocesan Sees), by Continent/ Region:

Europe: 4
North America: 2
Asia and Oceania: 2 (Southeast Asia/Oceania: 0)
Latin America: 0
Africa: 0

Curiosities: the February 2012 consistory will be the first one not to include a residential Cardinal from either Africa or Latin America since the small June 1977 Consistory - the last Montini Consistory, in which only 5 Cardinals were created, including Cardinals Ratzinger (Munich) and Gantin (Justice and Peace). / There will be 107 voting Cardinals on the eve of the next consistory, 21% of whom will be Italians. With the new Consistory, there will be 125 voting Cardinals, 24% of whom will be Italians, the highest percentage since the mid-1970s.