Pope Francis cardinals

Pope Francis announces that he will create 21 new Cardinals at a Consistory on Saturday, 27 August. They represent the Church worldwide, and reflect a ...

19. Archbishop Arrigo Miglio - Archbishop Emeritus of Cagliari (Italy) 15. Archbishop Adalberto Martínez Flores - Metropolitan Archbishop of Asunción (Paraguay) 14. Archbishop William Goh Seng Chye - Archbishop of Singapore (Singapore) 12. Archbishop Paulo Cezar Costa - Metropolitan Archbishop of Brasília (Brazil) 6. Archbishop Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, O.F.M. - Metropolitan Archbishop of Manaus (Brazil) 4. Archbishop Jean-Marc Aveline - Metropolitan Archbishop of Marseille (France)

With regard to the 21 new cardinals Pope Francis announced Sunday, including 16 under 80 and thus eligible to vote for the next pope, the question appears ...

This lack of familiarity suggests a good share of the electorate the next time around will be learning as they go, as opposed to arriving in Rome with preferences already set. One veteran Vatican cardinal recently said that in the last conclave, he estimated he knew personally about two-thirds of the participants – were it to happen again today, he said, he’d know only about a third. (Some observers believe the policy of distributing red hats to the peripheries may favor the candidacy of Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, seen as a strong Francis ally and also a product of the Community of Sant’Egidio, which has long had a presence in many of these far-flung locations. On the “harder to handicap” side of the ledger, most observers also would say there’s no obvious new papabile, meaning candidate to be the next pope, in this crop of cardinals. Mathematics reinforce that supposition, since as of August 27, when the consistory takes place in Rome, Francis will have named 83 out of 132 total voting-age cardinals at that point. McElroy was given the red hat instead of Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, among the largest and most complex archdioceses in the world, one that’s been led by a cardinal since 1953, and which is only about 120 miles away.

The two names from India the Pope announced are Filipe Neri Antonio Sebastao di Rosario Ferrao, Archbishop of Goa and Daman, and Anthony Poola, Archbishop of ...

Pope Francis' announcement on Sunday that 21 churchmen, including two from India, will be elevated to the rank of cardinal in a ceremony at the Vatican this summer was greeted with great joy among the faithful in the country. 3. Archbishop Fernando Vérgez Alzaga (Spanish) - President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State and President of the Governorate for Vatican City State 1. Archbishop Arthur Roche (British) - Prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments

Vatican City, May 30, 2022 / 05:15 am. The consistory for the creation of cardinals on Aug. 27 is a ceremony that seems to mark the end of a pontificate ...

Here, the pope wanted to reward the old guard of the Synod of Bishops, and it is a sign that should not be underestimated. Following the consistory in August, 18 countries that previously never had a cardinal will be represented in the College of Cardinals. The red birretta for him is a further slap in the face for Archbishop André-Joseph Leonard, who led the archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels from 2010 to 2015. Among the new cardinals there is also Bishop Peter Ebere Okpaleke of Ekwulobia, in southeastern Nigeria. He was appointed bishop of Ahiara by Benedict XVI in 2012 but was unable to settle in the diocese because local Catholics demanded a bishop of another ethnicity. His positions at the synod sought a synthesis, but he is considered an exponent of the progressive wing at home. At the end of 2022, the cardinals created by Pope Francis will only be two less than the quota necessary to elect a successor. Pope Francis has also named five new cardinals over the age of 80 without the right to vote in the conclave. Cantoni also featured in the Vatican finance trial, because Cardinal Angelo Becciu is alleged to have turned to him to put pressure to stop the flow of testimonies from Monsignor Alberto Perlasca, a priest of the Como diocese who is today one of the key witnesses. For Pope Francis, therefore, an appointment in the Curia does not count because under the new constitution this lasts a maximum of 10 years. By the end of August, Pope Francis will therefore have created 83 cardinal electors, or 62% of cardinals in a future conclave. Yet Archbishop Rino Fisichella, current president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization, will not be a cardinal. Europe has four new cardinals eligible to vote in a conclave, and the Americas also has four.