Vatican City: Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle is set to be the third out of 133 cardinal electors who will vote for the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church following Pope Francis’ death. A report on the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) news site on Wednesday said the casting of the votes will be done ‘by order of precedence.’

According to Philippines News Agency, the first elector will be Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who served as secretary of state under Pope Francis, while the second one will be Cardinal Fernando Filoni, a former apostolic nuncio to the Philippines and prefect of the old Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

The fourth elector will be Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who headed the dicastery that chose bishops, followed by Louis Raphael I Sako, patriarch of Baghdad. CBCP News reported that the first five electors will be followed by the 108 cardinal-priests and 20 cardinal-deacons, arranged by the date of their creation in a consistory.

Aside from Tagle, a former head of the archdiocese of Manila, two more Filipino cardinals are part of the conclave: CBCP president Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David, who is also the bishop of the Diocese of Kalookan, and Manila Archbishop Cardinal Jose Advincula. Advincula, who was elevated as cardinal by the late Pope Francis in November 2020, is elector no. 72 while David, who became a cardinal in December 2024 in Pope Francis’ final consistory, is 103rd on the list.

All 133 cardinal electors will gather at the Sistine Chapel and be sealed off from the rest of the world starting May 7, until two-thirds of the electors or at least 89 of them have chosen the same name to be the 267th pope. In the Philippines, masses and prayers are being offered for the election of the new pope in different churches.