Want to get to know the 16 new cardinal electors? Here are their remarkable stories

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These brief, in-depth profiles will give you a sense of the 16 men who will help to choose the next pope.

The list of cardinal electors to be added to the College on August 27 includes 16 men.

Over the last several months, Aleteia has told each of their fascinating stories.

Have a look below:

Roche (curia): The future Cardinal Roche, Pope Francis’ liturgical right-hand man

You Heung-sik (curia): The future cardinal helping the priests of the whole globe

Vérgez Alzaga (curia): After 50 years of service, now he’ll wear the red hat

Aveline (France): French-Algerian cardinal elector comes from a “city with a message” embraced by Francis

Steiner (Brazil): A red hat for the Amazon basin

McElroy (USA): Is McElroy’s red hat a message on migrants?

Cantoni (Italy): Cardinal Cantoni, an Italian in red for a martyred diocese

Baawobr (Ghana): A call to serve: New cardinal of Ghana sees sudden public prominence

Marengo (Mongolia): Meet the youngest cardinal of the Catholic Church

Costa (Brazil): Ideology masks people’s real problems, warns new cardinal of Brazil’s capital

Flores (Paraguay): 1st Paraguayan cardinal: A fascinating history linked to Boston’s archbishop

Okpaleke (Nigeria): The new cardinal who had to fight his flock to become a bishop

Ferrão (India): After 465 years, Goa receives its first cardinal

da Silva (East Timor): The 1st cardinal for this almost entirely Catholic, young nation

Poola (India): Meet the first “untouchable” cardinal: Anthony Poola was born a Dalit in India

Goh Seng Chye (Singapore): Meet Singapore’s 1st cardinal

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