This is a list of Polish cardinals. It includes all ethnic Poles, living and deceased, who were elevated to cardinalate by popes of the Roman Catholic Church. Cardinals are senior officials of the Church who collectively form the College of Cardinals, a body that elects and advises the supreme pontiff. The Conclaves column lists all conclaves, that is papal elections, that took place during a person's cardinalate and indicates whether he participated in a given conclave or not. Since 1970, cardinals who are 80 years or older at the beginning of a conclave are ineligible to participate.