List of the cardinal creations of Paul VI.

During his pontificate, Pope Paul VI created (1963–1978) 144 cardinals in six consistories . Here he continued the Pope John XXIII. continued line of internationalization of the College of Cardinals . Of the cardinals he had appointed , three were still alive at the 2013 conclave , but none of these cardinals had the right to vote. He created his three immediate successors in the papacy as cardinals.

February 22, 1965

1.  Lebanon : Maximos Saigh SMSP , Patriarch of Antioch and the whole Orient, of Alexandria and Jerusalem of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church
2.  Lebanon : Pierre-Paul Méouchi , Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and the whole of the Orient
3.  Egypt : Stephanos Sidarouss CM , Patriarch of Alexandria of the Coptic Catholic Church
4.  Ukrainian SSR : Josyf Ivanovycè Slipyj , Archbishop of Lviv , Patriarch of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
5.  Federal Republic of Germany : Lorenz Jaeger , Archbishop of Paderborn
6.  Ceylon : Thomas Cooray OMI , Archbishop of Colombo
7.  Czechoslovakia : Josef Beran , Archbishop of Prague
8.  Canada : Maurice Roy , Archbishop of Québec
9.  France : Joseph-Marie Martin , Archbishop of Rouen
10.  South Africa : Owen McCann , Archbishop of Cape Town
11.  Algeria : Léon-Étienne Duval , Archbishop of Algiers
12.  Italy : Ermenegildo Florit , Archbishop of Florence
13.  Yugoslavia : Franjo Šeper , Archbishop of Zagreb
14.  United Kingdom : John Carmel Heenan , Archbishop of Westminster
15.  France : Jean-Marie Villot , Archbishop of Lyon
16.  Upper Volta : Paul Zoungrana MAfr , Archbishop of Ouagadougou
17.  United States : Lawrence Shehan , Archbishop of Baltimore
18.  Italy : Enrico Dante , Prefect of the Congregation for the Ceremonies of the Pope and Secretary of the Congregation of Rites
19.  Italy : Cesare Zerba , Secretary of the Congregation for the Sacraments
20.  Brazil : Agnelo Rossi , Archbishop of São Paulo
21.  Italy : Giovanni Colombo , Archbishop of Milan
22.  Ireland : William Conway , Archbishop of Armagh
23.  Spain : Ángel Herrera Oria , Bishop of Málaga
24.  Italy : Federico Callori di Vignale , Majordomo in the Apostolic Palace
25.  Belgium : Joseph Cardijn , priest of the Archdiocese of Mechlin-Brussels
26.  Switzerland : Charles Journet , priest of the diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Friborg
27.  Italy : Giulio Bevilacqua , auxiliary bishop in Brescia

June 26, 1967

Karol Wojtyła, later John Paul II.

1.  Argentina : Nicolás Fasolino , Archbishop of Santa Fe
2.  Monaco : Antonio Riberi , Apostolic Nuncio in Spain
3.  Italy : Giuseppe Beltrami , Apostolic Nuncio in the Netherlands
4.  Italy : Alfredo Pacini , Apostolic Nuncio in Switzerland
5.  France : Gabriel-Marie Garrone , Prefect of the Curia for matters relating to seminars and universities
6.  United States : Patrick Aloysius O'Boyle , Archbishop of Washington
7.  Italy : Egidio Vagnozzi , Apostolic envoy to the USA
8.  Belgium : Maximilien de Fürstenberg , Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
9.  Italy : Antonio Samorè , Prefect of the Congregation for the Order of the Sacraments
10.  Italy : Francesco Carpino , Archbishop of Palermo
11.  Federal Republic of Germany / Bolivia : Josef Clemens Maurer CSsR , Archbishop of Sucre 
12.  Italy : Pietro Parente , secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
13.  Italy : Carlo Grano , Apostolic Nuncio in Italy
14.  Italy : Angelo Dell'Acqua , President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See
15.  Italy : Dino Staffa , Prefect of the Apostolic Signature
16.  Italy : Pericle Felici , President of the Pontifical Commission for the Interpretation of the Documents of the Second Vatican Council
17.  United States : John Joseph Krol , Archbishop of Philadelphia
18.  France : Pierre Veuillot , Archbishop of Paris
19.  United States : John Patrick Cody , Archbishop of Chicago
20.  Italy : Corrado Ursi , Archbishop of Naples
21.  German Democratic Republic : Alfred Bengsch , Bishop of Berlin
22.  Indonesia : Justinus Darmojuwono , Archbishop of Semarang
23.  Poland : Karol Wojtyła (later Pope John Paul II), Archbishop of Krakow
24.  Italy : Michele Pellegrino , Archbishop of Turin
25.  France : Alexandre-Charles Renard , Archbishop of Lyon
26.  United States : Francis Brennan , Dean of the Roman Rota
27.  Switzerland : Benno Gut OSB , Prefect of the Congregation for the Rites

April 28, 1969

Joseph Höffner

Johannes Willebrands

1.  People's Republic of China : Paul Yü Pin , Archbishop of Nanking
2.  Brazil : Alfredo Vicente Scherer , Archbishop of Porto Alegre
3.  Philippines : Julio Rosales y Ras , Archbishop of Cebu
4.  United Kingdom : Gordon Gray , Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh
5.  New Zealand : Thomas Peter McKeefry , Archbishop of Wellington
6.  Mexico : Miguel Darío Miranda y Gómez , Archbishop of Mexico City
7.  India : Joseph Parecattil , Archbishop of Ernakulam of the Syro-Malabar Church
8.  United States : John Francis Dearden , Archbishop of Detroit
9.  France : François Marty , Archbishop of Paris
10.  Madagascar : Jérôme Rakotomalala , Archbishop of Antananarivo
11.  Canada : George Bernard Flahiff CSB , Archbishop of Winnipeg
12.  France : Paul Gouyon , Archbishop of Rennes
13.  Spain : Mario Casariego y Acevedo CRS , Archbishop of Guatemala
14.  Spain : Vicente Enrique y Tarancón , Archbishop of Toledo
15.  Democratic Republic of the Congo : Joseph-Albert Malula , Archbishop of Kinshasa
16.  Ecuador : Pablo Muñoz Vega SJ , Archbishop of Quito
17.  Italy : Antonio Poma , Archbishop of Bologna
18.  United States : John Joseph Carberry , Archbishop of Saint Louis
19.  United States : Terence Cooke , Archbishop of New York
20.  South Korea : Stephen Kim Sou-hwan , Archbishop of Seoul
21.  Spain : Arturo Tabera , Archbishop of Pamplona
22.  Brazil : Eugênio de Araújo Sales , Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia
23.  Federal Republic of Germany : Joseph Höffner , Archbishop of Cologne
24.  United States : John Joseph Wright , Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy
25.  Italy : Paolo Bertoli , Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints
26.  Italy : Sebastiano Baggio , Apostolic Nuncio in Brazil
27.  Italy : Silvio Oddi , Apostolic Nuncio in Belgium and Internuntius in Luxembourg
28.  Italy : Giuseppe Paupini , Apostolic Nuncio in Colombia
29.  Italy : Giacomo Violardo , Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Order of the Sacraments
30.  Netherlands : Johannes Willebrands , President of the Secretariat for Christian Unity
31.  Italy : Mario Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano , Prefect of the Apostolic Chamber
32.  Italy : Sergio Guerri , President of the Pontifical Commission for the State of the Vatican City
33.  France : Jean Daniélou SJ , Catholic theologian and Jesuit priest
    
34.  Romania : Iuliu Hossu , Greek Catholic Bishop of Cluj-Gherla ( in pectore )
35.  Czechoslovakia : Štěpán Trochta SDB , Bishop of Leitmeritz (in pectore)

March 5th 1973

Albino Luciani, later Pope John Paul I.

Hermann Volk

1.  Italy : Albino Luciani (later Pope John Paul I), Patriarch of Venice
2.  Portugal : António Ribeiro , Patriarch of Lisbon
3.  Italy : Sergio Pignedoli , Secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
4.  Australia : James Robert Knox , Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship
5.  Italy : Luigi Raimondi , Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
6.  Italy : Umberto Mozzoni , Apostolic Nuncio in Brazil
7.  Brazil : Avelar Brandão Vilela , Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia
8.  India : Joseph Cordeiro , Archbishop of Karachi
9.  Colombia : Aníbal Muñoz Duque , Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Bogotá
10.  Poland : Bolesław Kominek , Archbishop of Wroclaw
11.  France : Paul-Pierre Philippe OP , Prefect of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches
12.  Italy : Pietro Palazzini , Secretary of the Cardinals Commission for the Papal Shrines of Pompeii and Loreto
13.  Puerto Rico : Luis Aponte Martínez , Archbishop of San Juan
14.  Argentina : Raúl Francisco Primatesta , Archbishop of Cordoba
15.  Italy : Salvatore Pappalardo , Archbishop of Palermo
16.  Italy : Ferdinando Giuseppe Antonelli OFM , Secretary of the Congregation for Rites
17.  Spain : Marcelo González Martín , Archbishop of Toledo
18.  France : Louis-Jean Guyot , Archbishop of Toulouse
19.  Italy : Ugo Poletti , Cardinal Vicar of the Diocese of Rome and Archpriest of the Lateran Basilica
20.  United States : Timothy Manning , Archbishop of Los Angeles
21.  Japan : Paul Yoshigorō Taguchi , Archbishop of Osaka
22.  Kenya : Maurice Michael Otunga , Archbishop of Nairobi
23.  Mexico : José Salazar López , Archbishop of Guadalajara
24.  People's Republic of the Congo : Emile Biayenda , Archbishop of Brazzaville
25.  United States : Humberto Sousa Medeiros , Archbishop of Boston
26.  Brazil : Paulo Evaristo Arns OFM , Archbishop of São Paulo
27.  Australia : James Darcy Freeman , Archbishop of Sydney
28.  Spain : Narciso Jubany , Archbishop of Barcelona
29.  Federal Republic of Germany : Hermann Volk , Bishop of Mainz
30.  Western Samoa : Pio Taofinu'u SM , Archbishop of Samoa-Apia

May 24, 1976

Aloísio Lorscheider

1.  Dominican Republic : Octavio Antonio Beras Rojas , Archbishop of Santo Domingo
2.  Italy : Opilio Rossi , President of the Pontifical Council for the Family
3.  Italy : Giuseppe Maria Sensi , Apostolic Nuncio in Portugal
4.  Argentina : Juan Carlos Aramburu , Archbishop of Buenos Aires
5.  Italy : Corrado Bafile , Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
6.  Senegal : Hyacinthe Thiandoum , Archbishop of Dakar
7.  Uganda : Emmanuel Kiwanuka Nsubuga , Archbishop of Kampala
8.  Federal Republic of Germany : Joseph Schröffer , Secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education
9.  India : Lawrence Trevor Picachy SJ , Archbishop of Calcutta
10.  Philippines : Jaime Lachica Sin , Archbishop of Manila
11.  United States : William Wakefield Baum , Archbishop of Washington
12.  Brazil : Aloísio Lorscheider OFM , Archbishop of Fortaleza
13.  New Zealand : Reginald John Delargey , Archbishop of Wellington
14.  Argentina : Eduardo Francisco Pironio , Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
15.  Hungary : László Lékai , Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest
16.  United Kingdom : Basil Hume OSB , Archbishop of Westminster
17.  Madagascar : Victor Razafimahatratra SJ , Archbishop of Antananarivo
18.  Nigeria : Dominic Ignatius Ekandem , Bishop of Ikot Ekpene
19.  Vietnam : Joseph Marie Trịnh Như Khuê , Archbishop of Hanoi
20.  Poland : Bolesław Filipiak , Dean of the Roman Rota
    
21.  Czechoslovakia : František Tomášek , Apostolic Administrator of Prague (in pectore)

June 27, 1977

Joseph Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict XVI.

1.  Italy : Giovanni Benelli , Archbishop of Florence
2.  Benin : Bernardin Gantin , President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
3.  Federal Republic of Germany : Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI.), Archbishop of Munich and Freising
4.  Italy : Mario Luigi Ciappi OP , papal house theologian

Web links

• Consistories for the creation of Cardinals - Paul VI (1963-1978). In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed November 29, 2016.