Ammon News - The focus is now on possible successors to Pope Francis, who passed away on Monday, April 21st. Iraqi Cardinal Louis Sako is allegedly joining the list of contenders for the position. Saad Salloum, an Iraqi academic who focuses on multicultural problems, highlighted the facts.

The Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq, Cardinal Sako, occupies a special place. Salloum describes him as the only Middle Eastern Cardinal who is now qualified to vote in and be nominated during the impending papal conclave to pick the next Pope. He was promoted to Cardinal on June 28, 2018. Iraq and the region now have a major say in the process thanks to this.

After Cardinals Tappouni and Delly (Sako’s predecessor), Sako is the third Iraqi patriarch in history to be made a Cardinal. In addition, he was just the second serving patriarch in the modern Middle East to be elevated, following the Maronite patriarch of Lebanon.

Cardinal Sako’s participation among the possible candidates is a significant development for the historic Christian communities of Iraq and the larger Middle East as the Catholic Church grieves Pope Francis and gets ready for the conclave. Iraqi news