| Elevated | Name | Current Title |
|---|
| 5 Mar 1973 | Ferdinando Giuseppe Cardinal Antonelli, O.F.M. † | Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Luis Cardinal Aponte Martínez | Archbishop Emeritus of San Juan de Puerto Rico |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Paulo Evaristo Cardinal Arns, O.F.M. | Archbishop Emeritus of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Emile Cardinal Biayenda † | Archbishop of Brazzaville, Congo |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Avelar Cardinal Brandão Vilela † | Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Joseph Marie Anthony Cardinal Cordeiro † | Archbishop of Karachi, Pakistan |
| 5 Mar 1973 | James Darcy Cardinal Freeman † | Archbishop Emeritus of Sydney, Australia |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Marcelo Cardinal González Martín † | Archbishop Emeritus of Toledo, Spain |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Louis-Jean-Frédéric Cardinal Guyot † | Archbishop Emeritus of Toulouse (-Narbonne-Saint Bertrand de Comminges-Rieux), France |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Juliu Cardinal Hossu † | Bishop of Cluj-Gherla (Romanian), Romania |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Narciso Cardinal Jubany Arnau † | Archbishop Emeritus of Barcelona, Spain |
| 5 Mar 1973 | James Robert Cardinal Knox † | President of the Pontifical Council for the Family |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Bolesław Cardinal Kominek † | Archbishop of Wrocław {Breslavia}, Poland |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Pope Albino Luciani † | Pope (Roma {Rome}, Italy) |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Timothy Cardinal Manning † | Archbishop Emeritus of Los Angeles, California, USA |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Humberto Sousa Cardinal Medeiros † | Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Umberto Cardinal Mozzoni † | Official of the Roman Curia - Other |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Aníbal Cardinal Muñoz Duque † | Archbishop Emeritus of Bogotá, Colombia |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Maurice Michael Cardinal Otunga † | Archbishop Emeritus of Nairobi, Kenya |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Pietro Cardinal Palazzini † | Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Salvatore Cardinal Pappalardo † | Archbishop Emeritus of Palermo, Italy |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Paul-Pierre Cardinal Philippe, O.P. † | Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Sergio Cardinal Pignedoli † | President of the Secretariat of Non-Christians |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Ugo Cardinal Poletti † | Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Roma {Rome}, Italy |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Raúl Francisco Cardinal Primatesta † | Archbishop Emeritus of Córdoba, Argentina |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Luigi Cardinal Raimondi † | Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints |
| 5 Mar 1973 | António Cardinal Ribeiro † | Patriarch of Lisboa, Portugal |
| 5 Mar 1973 | José Cardinal Salazar López † | Archbishop Emeritus of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Paul Yoshigoro Cardinal Taguchi † | Archbishop of Osaka, Japan |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Pio Cardinal Taofinu'u, S. M. † | Archbishop Emeritus of Samoa-Apia, Samoa, Pacific (Oceania) |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Stepán Cardinal Trochta, S.D.B. † | Bishop of Litomerice, Czech Republic |
| 5 Mar 1973 | Hermann Cardinal Volk † | Bishop Emeritus of Mainz, Germany |
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