OSV News - By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Although not a familiar name in the U.S. press, Hungarian Cardinal Péter Erdo of Esztergom-Budapest, 72, is a major figure among his peers in Europe, the church’s traditional heartland and the region of about 38.5% of the cardinal electors.
He is the youngest of the five electors who were named a cardinal by St. John Paul II and, as such, took part in the conclaves of 2005 and 2013. In fact, he was the youngest cardinal to take part in the conclave in 2005, and after the election of Pope Benedict XVI, his name often appeared in media prognoses of “papabile.”
A canon lawyer and historian of church law, he was elected president of the Council of Bishops’ Conferences of Europe at the age of 54 and was re-elected for a second five-year term in 2011, coordinating common projects on the continent as well as European church support for Catholic communities in the developing world.
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