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Choice of next pope up to world's cardinals
About a dozen names figure most prominently in speculation on Paul VI's successor. Papabili are discussed by Vatican watchers, with Italians historically favoured, though non-Europeans now form a majority in the College of Cardinals. Names include Willebrands, Hume, Pironio, Koenig, Binelli, Felici, Pignedoli, Baggio, Cooke, Krol, Alfrink and others as potential papal contenders.
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George W. Cornell
Paul VI
College of Cardinals
Johannes Willebrands
Utrecht
Netherlands
Vatican Secretariate For Christian Unity
Christendom
Paul
John XXIII
Willebrands
David Hume
Westminster
England
Eduardo Pironio
Vatican
Department For
Pope Paul
Giovanni Binelli
Florence
Italy
Binelli
Pericle Felici
Vatican Congregation of Canon Law
Sergio Pignedoli
Secretariate For
Sebastino Baggio
Terence Cooke
New York
John Krol
Philadelphia
Holland
Bernard Alfrink