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One hundred and fifteen cardinal electors participated in the papal conclave of 2005, which was convened to elect a pope (the leader of the Catholic Church) to succeed Pope John Paul II following his death on 2 April 2005. In accordance with the apostolic constitution Universi Dominici gregis, which governed the vacancy of the Holy See, only cardinals who had not passed their 80th birthday on the day on which the Holy See became vacant (in this case, cardinals who were born on or after 2 April 1925) were eligible to participate in the conclave. Of the 115 attending cardinal electors, 5 were cardinal bishops, 93 were cardinal priests, and 17 were cardinal deacons; 2 had been created cardinals by Pope Paul VI and 113 by Pope John Paul II. On 19 April, after four ballots over two days, they elected Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (pictured), Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, who took the papal name Benedict XVI. (Full list...)