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His credentials include spending 25 years in the [[Vatican]], enabling him to earn the respect of many other Cardinals.

His credentials include spending 25 years in the [[Vatican]], enabling him to earn the respect of many other Cardinals.

Cardinal Arinze is over 80 years of age, and thus will not participate in the Papal [[conclave]] that will choose a successor to Pope [[Benedict XVI]].<ref>[http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_p-vi_apc_19751001_romano-pontifici-eligendo_lt.html Apostolic Constitution of Pope Paul XI, Romano Pontifici Elegendo, paragraph 7]</ref> The last Bishop of Rome to elected when he was over the age of 80 was Pope Gregory XII in 1406.<ref>[http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1300765.htm]</ref>

Cardinal Arinze is over 80 years of age, and thus did not participate in the Papal [[conclave]] which chose [[Jorge Mario Bergoglio]], who took the name Pope Francis, as the successor to Pope [[Benedict XVI]].<ref>[http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/apost_constitutions/documents/hf_p-vi_apc_19751001_romano-pontifici-eligendo_lt.html Apostolic Constitution of Pope Paul XI, Romano Pontifici Elegendo, paragraph 7]</ref> The last Bishop of Rome to elected when he was over the age of 80 was Pope Gregory XII in 1406.<ref>[http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1300765.htm]</ref>

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