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| | Catholic World News : Two Cardinals Reach 80, Number of Electors Shrinking |
 | | VATICAN, Jan 31, 03 (CWNews.com) -- Two members of the College of Cardinals celebrated their 80th birthday on January 31, thus reaching the age when they become ineligible to vote in a papal election. |
 | | Cardinal Jorge Maria Mejia, the Argentine-born archivist and librarian of the Vatican; and Cardinal Maurice Michael Otunga, the former Archbishop of Nairobi, each reached the age of 80 on Friday. |
 | | Cardinal Mejia has worked at the Vatican for years, serving at the Congregation for Bishops, the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, and the Commission for Relations with Judaism. |
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