There are also another 10 Portuguese-speaking cardinals without voting rights as they are over 80 years old.


The Lisbon patriarch and the bishop of Santiago are to be formally appointed as cardinals on 14 February the Pope said on Sunday.


Manuel Clemente (66) was appointed as the 17th patriarch of Lisbon on 7 July 2013, succeeding José Policarpo, who has resigned in 2011 when he turned 75.


The bishop of Santiago, Arlindo Gomes Furtado, is the first Cape-Verdean cardinal. Born on 4 October 1949, he studied thoelogy in Portugal before returning to Cape Verde where he was ordained as a priest in 1976, and then as a bishop in 2004.


Brazil in the Portuguese-speaking country with most cardinals (10), four of whom can vote.