• February 18
  Biographical entry of the cardinal created by Pope Nicholas I the Great (858-867) in 864 (II).

• February 17
  Biographical entry of the cardinal created by Pope Nicholas I the Great (858-867) in 863 (I).

• February 16
  Biographical entry of the cardinal created by Pope Adrian II (867-872) in a promotion celebrated at an unknown date (IV).

• February 15
  New or better images have been added to the biographical entries of Cardinals Lodovico Pico della Mirandola (1712); Giacomo Antonelli (1847); Gaetano Bedini (1861); Friedrich Egon von Fürstenberg (1879); Georg von Kopp (1893); Basilio Pompilj (1911); Giovanni Cagliero (1915); Alexis-Henri-Marie Lépicier, O.S.M. (1927); Clemens Augustine von Galen (1946); Alfonso Castaldo (1958); Antonio Bacci (1960); Ángel Herrera Oria (1965); Agostino Casaroli (1979); Ernesto Civardi (1979); Carlos Amigo Vallejo, O.F.M. (2003); Umberto Betti, O.F.M. (2007); and courtesy of Mr. Oskar Juchnik from Poland, Mario Casariego y Acevedo (1969); and Rodolfo Quezada Toruño (2003).

• February 14
  Biographical entries of the cardinals created by Pope Adrian II (867-872) in 872 (III).

• February 13
  Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation from the pastoral government of the archdiocese of Prague, Czech Republic, presented by Cardinal Miloslav Vlk, in conformity to canon 401 § 1 of the Code of Canon Law. The pope named Dominik Jaroslav Duka, O.P., until then bishop of Hradec Králové, as new archbishop of Prague. The cardinal will be apostolic administrator of Prague until the installation of his successor. In Crónica - 2010.

• February 12
  In today's edition, L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, reported that on February 10, 2009, Cardinal William Joseph Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, presided in the Roman church of San Girolamo dei Croati a mass marking the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Blessed Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac, archbishop of Zagreb. Meanwhile, Cardinal Vinko Puljić, archbishop of Vrhbosna, celebrated a mass in Krašić, the place of confinement and death of Cardinal Stepinac; and Cardinal Josip Bozanić, archbishop of Zagreb, presided a celebration in the cathedral of Zagreb, near the grave of the cardinal beatified in 1998. Exactly forty years ago, the then twenty-one old seminarian Bozanić was arrested for having translated into Croatian and then released an article by Jesuit Father Fiorello Cavalli on Cardinal Stepinac, published on February 10, 1970, by "L'Osservatore Romano."
  
  In the church of San Girolamo dei Croati concelebrated Archbishops Nikola Eterović, Petar Rajić and Luigi De Magistris, and the bishop of Gospic-Senj, Bogović Mile, on a pilgrimage to Rome with four hundred young men who had brought the echo of the words of the pope in Croatian in the general audience in that morning remembering "Cardinal Stepinac martyr who sacrificed his life fifty years ago in testimony of faith," and calling on them to cherish the memory of the saintly cardinal. During the mass, the rector of the Croatian college, Monsignor Jure Bogdan, delivered the homily and announced the publication of a book with all the fifty homilies at masses celebrated for Cardinal Stepinac at S. Girolamo dei Croati from 1960 to today, recalling that in 1998, the year of the beatification in Marija Bistrica, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger presided over the ceremony in that church, and that among the first cardinals to go to S. Girolamo "should not be forgotten Franjo Šeper, successor to Stepinac in Zagreb and then also prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith." The mass was attended by the ambassadors of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Austria to the Holy See. The latter, according to the rector, was there also to remember the car crash that placed the Viennese Cardinal Franz König near death, while he was traveling to Zagreb as an envoy of Pope John XXIII to celebrate the funeral of Cardinal Stepinac.

• February 11
  The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, announced that Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B., secretary of State, was granted an honorary doctorate by the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Wrocław, Poland, consigned by the rector of the institution, Waldemar Irek, in a ceremony celebrated in the evening of February 11, 2009. At the same time, President Lech Kaczyński of Poland conferred on the cardinal the highst decoration of the country, the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland "for the lofty merits acquired in the development of the collaboration between the Republic of Poland and the Holy See and for the work carried out in favor of the Church in Poland." In Crónica - 2010.

• February 11
  Ten links to textual and pictorial information as well as biographical data about the cardinals created by Pope John VIII (872-882); twenty two inks about the cardinals created by Pope Marinus I (882-884); and sixteen links about the cardinals created by Pope Stephen V (VI) (885-891) have been included in their entries, kindly provided by Mr. Francisco Vázquez, from Valencia, Spain.

• February 10
  Biographical entries of the cardinals created by Pope Adrian II (867-872) in 869 (II).

• February 9
  Biographical entry of the cardinal created by Pope Adrian II (867-872) in 868 (I).

• February 8
  Biographical entries of the cardinals created by Pope John VIII (872-882) in 880 (V).

• February 7
  Biographical entries of the cardinals created by Pope John VIII (872-882) in 879 (IV).

• February 6
  Biographical entry of the cardinal created by Pope John VIII (872-882) in 878 (III).

• February 5
  After two years, the restoration of the tomb of Pope Sixtus IV (1471-1484), a Franciscan, has been completed. The pope wanted to be buried in a simple tomb but his nephew Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, future Pope Julius II, asked the most renowned sculptor of the time, Antonio del Pollaiuolo, to build this magnificent tomb, which took nine years to be completed and was never used as a tomb. The restorer in charge of the work was Sante Guido.. In Crónica - 2010

• February 4
  Biographical entry of the cardinal created by Pope John VIII (872-882) in 876 (II).

• February 3
  New or better images have been added to the biographical entries of Cardinals Augustyn Michał Stefan Radziejowski (1686); Engelbert Sterckx (1838); Victorino Guisasola y Menéndez (1914); Pietro La Fontaine (1916); Bonaventura Cerretti (1925); Giuseppe Gamba (1926); Francesco Marmaggi (1935); Vincenzo La Puma (1935); Luigi Maglione (1935); Pietro Ciriaci (1953); Alfredo Ottaviani (1953); Carlo Confalonieri (1958); Francesco Bracci (1958); Francesco Morano (1959); Theodore Heard (1959); Efrem Forni (1962); James Robert Knox (1973); Guido del Mestri (1991); and Gilberto Agustoni (1994).

• February 2
  Biographical entries of the cardinals created by Pope John VIII (872-882) in 875 (I).

• February 1
  Biographical entries of the cardinals created by Pope Marinus I (882-884) in a promotion celebrated at an unknown date (IV).

• January 31
  Additional information, mainly concerning their last illness, death, funeral and burial, has been included in the biographical entries of Cardinals John McCloskey (1875); Victor-Auguste-Isidore Dechamps, C.SS.R. (1875); Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski (1875); James Gibbons (1886); Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro (1887); Pierre-Lambert Goossens (1889); John Murphy Farley (1911); Léon-Adolphe Amette (1911); William Henry O'Connell (1911); Gaetano Bisleti (1911); Basilio Pompilj (1911); Friedrich Gustav Piffl, Can. Reg. of Saint Augustine (1914); Oreste Giorgi (1916); Denis Dougherty (1921); Juan Bautista Benlloch y Vivó (1921); Aurelio Galli (1923); Evaristo Lucidi (1923); George William Mundelein (1924); Patrick Joseph Hayes (1924); Bonaventura Cerretti (1925); Jozef-Ernest van Roey (1927); August Hlond, S.D.B. (1927); Jusztinian György Séredi, O.S.B. (1927); Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani (1930); Luigi Maglione (1935); Giovanni Mercati (1937); Adeodato Giovanni Piazza, O.C.D. (1937); Manuel Arteaga y Betancourt (1946); Bernard Griffin (1946); Konrad von Preysing (1946); Clemens August von Galen (1946); Gaetano Cicognani (1953); Marcello Mimmi (1953); Crisanto Luque (1953); Alfredo Ottaviani (1953); John Francis O'Hara, C.S.C. (1958); Alberto di Jorio (1958); Aloisius Joseph Muench (1959); Joseph Elmer Ritter (1961); Efrem Forni (1962); Leo-Jozef Suenens (1962); Enrico Dante (1965); Peter Thomas McKeefry (1969); Geroge Bernard Flahiff, C.S.B. (1969); Paul Gouyon (1969); Antonio Poma (1969); Joseph Malula (1969); Sebastiano Baggio (1969); Salvatore Pappalardo (1973); Humberto Sousa Medeiros (1973); Reginald John Delargey (1976); László Lékai (1976); Tomás Ó Fiaich (1979); Ángel Suquía Goicoechea (1985); Franz Hengsbach (1988); Cahal Brendan Daly (1991); Pierre Eyt (1994); Alois Grillmeier, S.J. (1994); and Mario Francesco Pompedda (2001), kindly provided by Mr. Eman Bonnici from Malta.

• January 30
  Biographical entry of the cardinal created by Pope Marinus I (882-884) in 884 (III).

• January 29
  Biographical entry of the cardinal created by Pope Marinus I (882-884) in 883 (II).

• January 28
  Biographical entries of the cardinals created by Pope Marinus I (882-884) in 882 (I).

• January 27
  Cardinal Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic, archbishop emeritus of Toronto, Canada, turned eighty years old, and, according to the regulation in the seventh paragraph of the introduction of the apostolic constitution Universi Dominici gregis, lost the right to participate in the conclave. The cardinal electors are now 111; 81 have been created by Pope John Paul II; and 30 by Pope Benedict XVI. The cardinal non-electors are 71, of which 4 were created by Pope Paul VI, 61 by Pope John Paul II and 6 by Pope Benedict XVI. In Crónica - 2010.

• January 25
  Biographical entry of the cardinal created by Pope Stephen V (VI) (885-891) in a promotion celebrated at an unknown date (II).

• January 23
  New or better images have been added to the biographical entries of Cardinals Almaraz y Santos, Enrique (1911); Cheli, Giovanni (1998); Colombo, Giovanni (1965); Confalonieri, Carlo (1958); Dalbor, Edmund (1919); Danneels, Godfried (1983); Dante, Enrico (1965); Dunajewski, Albin (1890); Felici, Pericle (1967); Kominek, Bolesław (1973); Marchetti Selvaggiani, Francesco (1930); Meisner, Joachim (1983); Melchers, S.J., Paul (1885); Muñoz Vega, Pablo (1969); O'Hara, C.S.C., John Francis (1958); Puzyna, Jan (1901); Rampolla del Tindaro, Mariano (1887); Rossum, C.SS.R., Willem Marinus van (1911); Rubiano Sáenz, Pedro (2001); and Wazy, S.J., Jan Olbracht (1629).

• January 22
  The Vatican Press Office published a communique announcing that the Council of Cardinals for the Study of the Organizational and Economic Problems of the Holy See met on January 20 and 21, 2010, under the presidency of Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B.

  Also participating were Cardinals Joachim Meisner, archbishop of Cologne, Germany; Antonio María Rouco Varela, archbishop of Madrid, Spain; Dionigi Tettamanzi, archbishop of Milan, Italy; Wilfrid Fox Napier, archbishop of Durban, South Africa; Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, archbishop of Lagos, Nigeria; Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, archbishop of Lima, Perú; Marc Ouellet, P.S.S., archbishop of Québec, Canada; Odilo Pedro Scherer, archbishop of São Paulo, Brazil; Agostino Vallini, vicar general of His Holiness for the diocese of Rome. Absent because of binding pastoral obligations were Cardinals Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino, archbishop of Caracas, Venezuela, and Nicholas Cheong Jinsuk, archbishop of Seoul, South Korea.

  The Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See was represented by Velasio De Paolis, C.S., titular archbishop of Telepte; by Vincenzo Di Mauro, titular bishop of Arpi; and by Ragioniere Generale, Dr. Stefano Fralleoni.

  The Governatorate of the State of Vatican City was represented by the president of the Cardinalitial Commission for the State of Vatican City, Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo; and by its secretary general, Carlo Maria Viganò, titular archbishop of Ulpiana.

  For the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See intervened Cardinal Attilio Nicora, president, and its secretary, Monsignor. Domenico Calcagno.

  At the invitation of the cardinal secretary of State wre present Father Federico Lombardi, S.J., and Doctor Alberto Gasbarri, respectively director general and administrative director of Vatican Radio.

  The order of the day "was the discussion of the consolidated budget of the Holy See and the budget of the Governorate of Vatican City State, for the year 2010".

  During the meeting Archbishop Velasio De Paolis, C.S., president of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See, explained that "the largest cost is that concerning the payment of employees who work in the Vatican, whose number stands at 2,668. Although it is foreseen that these costs will be contained, the relative financial burden is nonetheless growing because of the adjustment of wages to the cost of living. In addition, there are the costs concerning Vatican Radio and other media institutions": the Vatican Press, L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican Publishing House and the Vatican Television Centre. As for the budget of the Governorate of Vatican City State, Archbishop De Paolis explained how that organisation "administers its finances autonomously and has substantially overcome the difficulties of previous financial years, enabling it to look to the future with greater confidence. "Apart from the costs associated with the institutional activities of the State, the governorate also meets the costs deriving from the maintenance of buildings", he added.

  The communique concludes by noting that Pope Benedict XVI visited the participants in the meeting and "listened to their observations with great interest, thanking everyone concerned for their valuable assistance to the Apostolic See". In Crónica - 2010.

• January 22
  In today's edition, L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, published a letter, dated January 15, 2010, written by Pope Benedict XVI to Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B., secretary of State, confirming him in that post. The cardinal had submitted his resignation when he turned seventy five years old. In Crónica - 2010.

• January 21
  Thirty seven links to textual and pictorial information as well as biographical data about the cardinals created by Pope Formosus (891-896); and ninteen links about the cardinals created by Pope John IX (898-900) have been included in their entries, kindly provided by Mr. Francisco Vázquez, from Valencia, Spain.

• January 20
  Biographical entry of the cardinal created by Pope Stephen V (VI) (885-891) in 890 (I).

• January 19
  Additional information concerning the episcopal consecration of Cardinals Louis I de Guise de Lorraine (1553); Pietro Ottoboni (1689); Francesco del Giudice (1690); Giulio Alberoni (1717); Giambattista Altieri, iuniore (1724); Agostino Pipia, O.P. (1724); Niccolò Paolo Andrea Coscia (1725); Nicolò Maria Lercari (1726); Marco Antonio Ansidei (1726); Giuseppe Accoramboni (1728); Giovanni Antonio Guadagni, O.C.D. (1731); Giacomo Lanfredini (1734); Giuseppe Spinelli (1735); Pierre-Guérin de Tencin (1739); and Camillo Paolucci (1743), has been included in their respective biographical entries, kindly provided by Mr. Charles N. Bransom, Jr., director and editor of Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, and creator of the site Apostolic Succession & Episcopal Lineages in the Roman Catholic Church.

• January 18
  Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation from the pastoral government of the see of Mechelen-Brussels, Belgium, presented by Cardinal Godfried Danneels, in conformity to canon 401 § 1 of the Code of Canon Law. At the same time, the pope appointed André-Mutien Léonard, until then bishop of Namur, to succeed him. The cardinal will be apostolic administrator of that see until the installation of his successor. The new archbishop, who had taken the second name "Mutien" (after Frère Mutien de Malonne, canonized twenty years ago) when he was appointed bishop of Namur, will change it for "Joseph", patron saint of Belgium. In Crónica - 2010.

• January 17
  RTL Info.be reported that Bishop André-Mutien Léonard of Namur, Belgium, confirmed that he will be the successor of Cardinal Godfried Danneels, archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels. The bishop said that he had been notified about his new appointment on Tuesday January 12. It is expected that on Monday, January 18, 2009, the Vatican will announce that the resignation of the cardinal for reason of age has been accepted by Pope Benedict XVI; at the same time, it is expected that the appointment of Bishop Léonard as his successor will be announced. Eric de Beukelaer, spokesman for the Belgian Bishops' Conference, addressing the various reports that circulated on Friday January 15, concerning the appointment of Bishop Leonard as the new archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels, reiterated that it is the pope who appoints bishops and archbishops and that he alone will inform the Christians of Belgium. Since Rome has not sent a message to the official Catholic community in Belgium, one can expect that the bodies of the Church of Belgium will not be commenting on a designation of such importance. The discretion demonstrated today is logical and can not be construed otherwise than by their desire to respect the competence of everyone in the Church. A farewell celebration took place on Saturday January 9 in the cathedral of Saints Michel et Gudule de Bruxelles, Brussels, in the presence of Queen Fabiola, Princess Mathilde of Belgium, and the apostolic nuncio. On Friday January 15, 2009, the apostolic nuncio in Belgium, Giacinto Berloco, titular archbishop of Fidence, had announced that the resignation of Cardinal Danneels and the appointment of his successor were to be made public by Rome in a few days; and that an invitation to a press conference would follow to present the new archbishop. In Crónica - 2010.

• January 16
  The newspaper La Vérité of Madagascar reported that the funeral of Cardinal Armand-Gaétan Razafindratandra, archbishop emeritus of Antananarivo, Madagascar, took place on January 15, 2010, a day of national mourning. The solemn mass, celebrated at 9 a.m., in the premises of the Institution ESSCA, Antanimena, to accommodate the multitude of faithful, was presided by Archbishop Odon Marie Arsène Razanakolona of Antananarivo. President Andry Rajoelina, of the Présidence de la Haute autorité de la Transition de Madagascar, and his wife were in attendance. Also present were numerous political and military personalities, as well as the diplomatic corps with its dean, Nuncio Augustin Kasujja, titular archbishop of Cesarea di Numidia. The ceremony was broadcasted live by radio and television (RNM and TVM). After the funeral, in spite of the incessant rain, a large procession accompanied the body of the late cardinal from Antanimena through the streets of Faravohitra and Ambondrona to the cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of Andohalo. The head turned toward the east, Cardinal Razafindratandra rests in the vault of bishops in the cathedral, just in the 8th drawer in the crypt behind the altar, where the former bishops are also buried. The Express of Madagascar, Madagascar Tribune and Midi Madagasikara, also reported on the funeral of the cardinal. In Crónica - 2010.

• January 15
  Biographical entries of the cardinals created by Pope Formosus (891-896) in a promotion celebrated at an unknown date (II).

• January 14
  ZENIT.org informed that Dr. Zilda Arns, a pediatrician and founder of "Pastoral de la Infancia" in Brazil, was killed in the earthquake that devastated Haiti and killed thousands of people on Tuesday January 12, 2009. She was the sister of Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns, O.F.M., archbishop emeritus of São Paulo, Brazil. Dr. Arns had obtained great success world-wide in the fight against infant mortality. She was in Haiti realizing a mission in favor of "Pastoral de la Infancia". Dr. Arns, 75 years old and a widow since 1978, was the mother of five children. She was considered one of the most important women of Brazil and had also founded "Pastoral para las personas con sida" (Pastoral for persons with AIDS). Both organizations are linked to the Conference of Bishops of Brazil. In 2001, she had been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize; and in 2002, she had been recognized as "Heroína de la Salud Pública de las Américas", by the Organización Panamericana de la Salud (Panamerican Organization for Health). In a note, Cardinal Arns said that he had received with pain the news that his sister had suffered, together with the beloved Haitian people, the tragic effects of the earthquake. Adding that God, in his mercy, receive in heavens those who on earth fought for the children and the powerless. The cardinal concluded saying that this is not the moment to lose hope. Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot of Port-au-Prince was also killed in the earthquake, as were tens of priests, men and women religious and seminarians. In Crónica - 2010.

• January 13
  Links have been established from the list of occupants of the titles of S. Stefano al Monte Celio; S. Susanna; and Ss. Vitale, Valeria, Gervasio e Protasio, to their respective biographical entries. Also, a new lay out of the section has been set up to facilitate its navigation. All the catalogs of the site are now linked to the respective biographical entries of the cardinals listed in them.

• January 12
  Links have been established from the list of occupants of the titles of Ss. Silvestro e Martino ai Monti; S. Silvestro in Capite; and S. Sisto, to their respective biographical entries. Also, a new lay out of the section has been set up to facilitate its navigation.

• January 11
  TV New Zealand (TVNZ) announced on January 10, 2010, that, on the day before, Pope Benedict XVI had paid a thirty-minute private visit to Cardinal Roger Etchegaray at the Policlinico Agostino Gemelli in Rome, where the cardinal recovers from the injuries that he suffered during the incident against the pope by an unstable woman at the beginning of Christmas Eve mass in the Vatican basilica. In Crónica - 2010.

• January 10
  Cardinal Armand-Gaétan Razafindratandra, archbishop emeritus of Antananarivo, Madagascar, died at 7 p.m. on January 9, 2010. He was walking near a religious center of the city of Mahajanga, when he fainted and fell (he used to swim in the nearby beach). He had recently suffered a bout of influenza. He was taken to the hospital of Androva in that city, where he died shortly after. The cardinal's remains will be exposed in Mahajanga. On Tuesday January 12, the remains will be taken to Antananarivo and exposed in the church of Saint François Xavier, in Antanimena. The funeral will be held on Friday January 15, in the metropolitan cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Andohalo, Antananarivo; the date has been declared a day of national mourning by the government; after the funeral, the body of the cardinal will be buried in that cathedral. He had expressed his wish to be buried in Besalampy, Région Melaky, one of the poorest areas of Madagascar, on the west coast, where he had established himself after retiring as archbishop of Antananarivo, and where he had founded a vacation camp for poor children. Upon learning the news of the death of the cardinal, Pope Benedict XVI prayed for the eternal repose of his soul and sent a telegram of condolence to Archbishop Odon Marie Arsène Razanakolona of Antananarivo. President Andry Rajoelina, of the Présidence de la Haute autorité de la Transition de Madagascar, also sent telegrams of condolence to the pope, the apostolic nuncio in Madagascar and the Episcopal Conferences of Madagascar. After the death of Cardinal Razafindratandra, the members of the College of Cardinals are 182. The cardinal non-electors are now 70, of which 4 were created by Pope Paul VI, 60 by Pope John Paul II and 6 by Pope Benedict XVI. In Crónica - 2010.

• January 9
  New or better images have been added to the biographical entries of Cardinals Francisco de Saldanha da Gama (1756); François-Marie-Anatole de Roverie de Cabrières (1911); Vicente Enrique y Tarancón (1969); Paolo Bertoli (1969); James Robert Knox (1973); Octavio Antonio Beras Rojas (1976); Juan Carlos Aramburu (1976); František Tomášek (1976); Władysław Rubin (1979); Franciszek Macharski (1979); Cahal Brendan Daly (1991); Justin Francis Rigali (2003); and Carlo Caffarra (2006).

• January 8
  Biographical entries of the cardinals created by Pope Formosus (891-896) in 896 (I).

• January 7
  New bibliographic items added to the site during the months of October to December 2009.

• January 6
  The funeral for the late Cardinal Cahal Brendan Daly, archbishop emeritus of Armagh, Ireland, took place yesterday at noon in St. Patrick's cathedral in that city. The mass was presided over by Cardinal Seán Baptist Brady, his successor in that primatial see, who also delivered the homily, and represented Pope Benedict XVI at the funeral. Among those who attended the mass were Irish President Mary McAleese; Taoiseach Brian Cowen; Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, archbishop emeritus of Westminster, England; Cardinal Keith Michael Patrick O'Brien, archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland; Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness; most of the Irish bishops, who were joined by the leaders of the other larger Christian denominations. Queen Elizabeth II was represented by Lord Caledon, the Lord Lieutenant of County Armagh. A message from Pope Benedict XVI was read to the more than 1,000 mourners assembled for the funeral. After the mass, the remains of the late cardinal were buried in the cathedral grounds next to his three immediate predecessors. In Crónica - 2010.

• January 6
  The funeral for the late Cardinal Peter Seiichi Shirayanagi, archbishop emeritus of Tokyo, Japan, took place yesterday at 11 a.m. in St. Mary's cathedral in that city. The mass was presided over by Archbishop Peter Takeo Okada of Tokyo, his successor in that see. After the funeral, the remains of the cardinal were cremated following the Japanese custom. In Crónica - 2010.

• January 5
  Biographical entries of the cardinals created by Pope John IX (898-900) in 900 (II).

• January 4
  Forty one links to textual and pictorial information as well as biographical data about the cardinals created by Pope Sergius III (904-911); eight links about the cardinals created by Pope John X (914-928); and twenty four links about the cardinals created by Pope Leo VI (928-929) have been included in their entries, kindly provided by Mr. Francisco Vázquez, from Valencia, Spain.

• January 3
  Biographical entries of the cardinals created by Pope John IX (898-900) in 898 (I).

• January 2
  Additional information has been included in the biographical entries of Cardinals Michael Logue (1893); Salvador Casañas y Pagés (1895); Agostino Richelmy (1899); Pietro Gasparri (1907); Gaetano de Lai (1907); Antonio Vico (1911); Louis-Nazaire Bégin (1914); János Csernoch (1914); Alessio Ascalesi, C.PP.S. (1916); Augusto Silj (1919); Eugenio Tosi, O.SS.C.A. (1922); Giovanni Bonzano (1922); Patrick O'Donnell (1925); Félix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, O.P. (1927); Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, O.S.B. (1929); Raffaele Carlo Rossi, O.C.D. (1930); Arthur Hinsley (1937); Clemente Micara (1946); Francis Joseph Spellman (1946); José da Costa Nunes (1962); Owen McCann (1965); Vicente Enrique y Tarancón (1969); Avelar Brandão Vilela (1973); Vicenzo Fagiolo (1994); and Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo (2006), provided by Mr. Eman Bonnici, from Malta.

• On January 1, 2010, the members of the College of Cardinals are 183; 112 are electors and 71 are non-electors, having lost their right to participate in the conclave when they turned 80 years old, according to the regulation in the seventh paragraph of the introduction of the apostolic constitution Universi Dominici gregis. During this year, eleven cardinals will turn 80. They are: Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic, January 27; Adam Joseph Maida, March 18; Thomas Stafford Williams, March 20; Julián Herranz Casado, March 31; Theodore Edgar McCarrick, July 7; Paul Poupard, August 30; Salvatore De Giorgi, September 6; Ignace Moussa I Daoud, September 18; Michele Giordano, September 26; Christian Wyghan Tumi, October 15; Jānis Pujats, November 14.

• From January 1 to December 31, 2009, the cardinals' site received 168,907 visits and innumerable electronic messages with comments, corrections, and additional information, both textual and pictorial. The counter records only the initial visit to the site and not the ones to other sections on the same occasion. During the year, the biographical entries of the cardinals created between 900 and 1118 were added to the site. 3,851 (92%) of the 4,196 names identified in the site now have biographical entries.

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