While Filipino prelate, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, is seen as the leading candidate to succeed Pope Francis – should the Pontiff follow the precedent set by his predecessor, Benedict XVI, and announce his resignation in the near-future - head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Singapore, Cardinal William Goh, is emerging as another papabile from Asia (southeast Asia, no less) and one who could reach conservatives perhaps better than Tagle, considered the “Asian Francis”. Just four days younger than the Filipino, Goh became the first ever cardinal from Singapore after he was appointed on August 27.