Cardinals created by Benedict XVI

The 2010 consistory produced 121 electors, until Cardinal Bernard Panafieu turned 80 two months later on 26 January 2011.

After the consistory of February 2012, there were 125 electors, and the count returned to 120 on 26 July after the 80th birthdays of Cardinals Rodolfo Quezada Toruño, Edward Michael Egan, Miloslav Vlk, Henri Schwery, and James Francis Stafford.

[b] Pope Benedict announced the appointment of 23 new cardinals on 17 October 2007, scheduling a consistory for 24 November.

[11][c][12] He announced that he had intended to make Bishop Ignacy Jeż of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg, Poland, who died on 16 October, a cardinal as well.

[7][16] Though the number of cardinal electors exceeded the limit of 120,[7] nine of them were due to turn eighty before the end of the year.

[citation needed] Previously, only Pope John Paul II's consistories in 2001 and 2003 had produced a larger number of electors, 135.

[d] On 24 October 2012, during a meeting of the Synod of Bishops, Benedict announced he would create six cardinals at a consistory on 24 November.