Cardinal Ouellet also has a conservative reputation in Catholic doctrinal issues, a reputation that helped endear Joseph Ratzinger to the cardinals who elected him pope in 2005.
He voted in the conclave that elected Benedict XVI as Pope in 2005 but, as he turned 80 last August, he will be too old to vote for Benedict XVI's successor.
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One of five children born in Buenos Aires to an Italian immigrant railway worker, according to NBC News, Bergoglio, 76, is viewed as a compassionate conservative and reportedly came in second during the vote for Pope Benedict in 2005.
Although he reportedly came second to Pope Benedict XVI during the 2005 conclave, few had predicted the election of the first pope from outside Europe in 1, 300 years.
The former Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 76, reportedly got the second-most votes after Joseph Ratzinger, the last pope, in the 2005 papal election.
Scola was considered a favorite the last time a pope was chosen, in 2005.
Weeks later a conclave of cardinals gathered in the Sistine Chapel, electing him pope on April 19, 2005.
Months after former Pope Benedict XVI was elected in 2005, excerpts of an anonymous cardinal's diary were published.
And they will also give the faithful a way to say farewell under happier circumstances than when his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, died in 2005.
There are several papal contenders in the wings, but no obvious front-runner as was the case when Benedict was elected pontiff in 2005 after the death of Pope John Paul II.
At Pope Benedict XVI's election in 2005, Allen recalled, bells had rung out at the same time as smoke came from the Sistine Chapel chimney, but it transpired that they were just marking the top of the hour.
That the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was second only to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in the 2005 conclave that elected Ratzinger pope has only added to the popular imagination about how these two popes of such different style, background and priorities might get along.
Unlike the conclave that followed Pope John Paul II's death in 2005, cardinals didn't spend time in mourning.
Francis arrived a half-hour early to bless a plaque renaming a corner of the piazza outside the church after Pope John Paul II, who died in 2005.
And the Vatican showed off the urns into which the cardinals will place their ballots, the same silver and bronze flying-saucer-like urns used in the 2005 conclave that elected Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger pope.
In 2005, Benedict told cardinals gathered to elect a new pope in Rome that this moral framework was also a form of bondage, "a dictatorship of relativism which doesn't recognise anything for certain".
Putting up the money for the fresco restoration in the Vatican coupled with other donations prompted Pope Benedict XVI to make him a Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Gregory in 2005.
In Mexico, an archbishop called on worshippers to stop making comparisons between Benedict and the former pope, who drew massive crowds across Latin America and visited every country in the region before he died in 2005.
Elected April 19, 2005, after one of the shortest conclaves in history, Benedict was, at 78, the oldest pope elected in 275 years and the first German in nearly a millennium.
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