The Vatican says French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran has become the prelate who would make the announcement "Habemus Papam" (We have a pope) to the world in the event of the election of a new pontiff.
The 67-year-old Tauran is the new Proto-Deacon of the College of Cardinals, whose duties include introducing the new pope after his election.
Tauran, who heads the Vatican's office for relations with non-Christians, succeeds Italian Cardinal Agostino Cacciavillan.
It was a Chilean cardinal, Jorge Arturo Medina Estevez, who announced on April 19, 2005, that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had been elected pope and taken the name Benedict XVI.
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