Who Will Be The Next Pope?

The 12 Photos shows Cardinals likely to succeed to Pope Benedict XVI who announced he will step down at the end of this month after an eight-year pontificate.

Top row from left -

• Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes
• Honduran Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodrigues Maradiaga
• Argentine Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio
• Mexican Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera
• Brazilian Joao Braz de Aviz
• Philippines' Luis Antonio Tagle and 
• Nigerian Peter Turkson

Bottom row from left -

•  Austrian Cristoph Schonborn
•  Hungarian Peter Erdoe
•  Italian Angelo Scola
• Canadian Marc Ouellet
• Nigerian Francis Arinze
• Nigerian John Onaiyekan and 
• USA's Timothy Dolan

Bookmaker William Hill report significant support for Papal favourite Peter Turkson to be named as the replacement for Pope Benedict XVI and as a result the odds are 13/8 that the next Pope is from an African Country. There are a large number of Italian contenders in the top ten and William Hill make it an odds-on chance at 4/5 that the next Pope is from Italy