Here, in the Vatican's traditional precedence order, Pope Benedict's slate of cardinals-designate to be elevated on 18 February:- Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples;
- Manuel Monteiro de Castro, Major Penitentiary of the Roman Church;
- Santos Abril y Castelló, archpriest of St Mary Major;
- Antonio Maria Veglió, president of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Refugees;
- Giuseppe Bertello, president of the Government of the Vatican City-State;
- Francesco Coccopalmerio, president of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts
- Joao Braz de Aviz, prefect of the Congregation for Religious;
- Edwin Frederick O'Brien, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre;
- Domenico Calcagno, president of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See;
- Giuseppe Versaldi, president of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See;
- George Alencherry, Major-Archbishop of Erkugnalam-Angamaly of the Syro-Malybars;
- Thomas Christopher Collins, archbishop of Toronto;
- Dominik Duka OP, archbishop of Prague;
- Willem Jacobus Eijk, archbishop of Utrecht;
- Giuseppe Betori, archbishop of Florence;
- Timothy Michael Dolan, archbishop of New York;
- Rainer Maria Woelki, archbishop of Berlin;
- John Tong Hon, bishop of Hong Kong
...and likewise, the designates older than 80 -- and, ergo, unable to enter a conclave --who are given the red hat as an "honorary" gesture:
- Lucien Muresan, major archbishop of Fagaras and Alba Julia of the Romanians;
- Fr Julien Ries, Belgian historian/anthropologist of religion;
- Prosper Grech OSA, Maltese Biblical scholar;
- Karl Josef Becker SJ