THIRTY-SEVEN METROPOLITAN ARCHBISHOPS TO RECEIVE THE PALLIUM

VATICAN CITY, JUN 24, 1999 (VIS) - In St. Peter's Basilica at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, June 29, the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, Apostles, thirty-seven metropolitan archbishops will receive the pallium from Pope John Paul. The new metropolitans are:

1. Archbishop Victor Manuel Lopez Forero of Bucaramanga, Colombia.

2. Archbishop Jean Zerbo of Bamako, Mali.

3. Archbishop Terence T. Prendergast, S.J. of Halifax, Canada.

4. Archbishop Louis-Marie Bille of Lyon, France.

5. Archbishop Moacyr Grechi, O.S.M. of Porto Velho, Brazil.

6. Archbishop Jose Palmeira Lessa of Aracaju, Brazil.

7. Archbishop Francois Saint-Macary of Rennes, France.

8. Archbishop Ignatius Paul Pinto of Bangalore, India.

9. Archbishop Vincent Michael Concessao of Agra, India.

10. Archbishop Carlos Jose Nanez of Cordoba, Argentina.

11. Archbishop Armando Dini of Campobasso-Boiano, Italy.

12. Archbishop Roberto Luckert Leon of Coro, Venezuela.

13. Archbishop Michel Malo of Antsiranana, Madagascar.

14. Archbishop Nicolas Cotugno Fanizzi, S.D.B. of Montevideo, Uruguay.

15. Archbishop Adolfo Rodriguez Herrera of Camaguey, Cuba.

16. Archbishop James Odongo of Tororo, Uganda.

17. Archbishop Paul K. Bakyenga of Mbarara, Uganda.

18. Archbishop John Baptist Odama of Gulu, Uganda.

19. Archbishop Buti Joseph Tlhagale, O.M.I. of Bloemfontein, South Africa.

20. Archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne of Lima, Peru.

21. Archbishop Geraldo Majella Agnelo of Sao Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.

22. Archbishop Jose Antonio Aparecido Tosi Marques of Fortaleza, Brazil.

23. Archbishop Luis Morales Reyes of San Luis Potosi, Mexico.

24. Archbishop Josaphat Louis Lebulu of Arusha, Tanzania.

25. Archbishop Benedict John Osta, S.J. of Patna, India.

26. Archbishop Gustavo Martinez Frias of Nueva Pamplona, Colombia.

27. Archbishop Ruben Salazar Gomez of Barranquilla, Colombia.

28. Archbishop Luigi Bressan of Trento, Italy.

29. Archbishop Roberto Octavio Gonzalez, O.F.M. of San Juan de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico.

30. Archbishop Andre Vingt-Trois of Tours, France.

31. Archbishop Zygmunt Kamicski of Szczecin-Kamien, Poland.

32. Archbishop Edmundo M. Abaya of Nueva Segovia, Philippines.

33. Archbishop Domenico Umberto D'Ambrosio of Foggia-Bovino, Italy.

34. Archbishop Jorge Ferreira da Costa Ortiga of Braga, Portugal.

35. Archbishop Thomas C. Collins of Edmonton, Canada.

36. Archbishop Claude Feidt of Aix, France.

37. Archbishop Severino Poletto of Turin, Italy.

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