JOHN PAUL NAMES 37 NEW CARDINALS, WILL REVEAL "IN PECTORE" NAMES

VATICAN CITY, JAN 21, 2001 (VIS) - This morning before reciting the angelus with several thousand faithful who had gathered in St. Peter's Square, Pope John Paul announced that on February 21 he will hold the eighth consistory of his pontificate in which he will create 37 new cardinals. He will also reveal the names of the two cardinals reserved "in pectore" in the consistory on February 21 1998.

"Today," said the Holy Father, "I have the joy to announce that next February 21, vigil of the feast of the Chair of Peter, I will hold a consistory in which, deviating once again from the numerical limit established by Pope Paul VI, which I confirmed in the Apostolic Constitution 'Universi dominici gregis', I will name 37 new cardinals."

He then listed the future cardinals:

1. Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.
2. Archbishop Francois Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.
3. Archbishop Agostino Cacciavillan, president of APSA (Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See).
4. Archbishop Sergio Sebastiani, president of the Prefecture of the Economic Affairs of the Holy See.
5. Archbishop Zenon Grocholewski, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education.
6. Archbishop Jose Saraiva Martins, O.F.M., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
7. Archbishop Crescenzio Sepe, secretary general of the Committee of the Great Jubilee.
8. Archbishop Jorge Maria Mejia, archivist and librarian of Holy Roman Church. 9. His Beatitude Ignace Moussa I Daoud, prefect of the Congregation for Oriental Churches.
10. Archbishop Mario Francesco Pompedda, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature.
11. Bishop Walter Kasper, emeritus of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.
12. Archbishop Antonio Jose Gonzalez Zumarraga of Quito, Ecuador.
13. Archbishop Ivan Dias of Bombay, India.
14. Archbishop Geraldo Majella Agnelo of Sao Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.
15. Archbishop Pedro Rubiano Saenz of Bogota, Colombia.
16. Archbishop Theodore Edgar McCarrick of Washington, U.S.A.
17. Archbishop Desmond Connell of Dublin, Ireland.
18. Archbishop Audrys Juozas Backis of Vilnius, Lithuania.
19. Archbishop Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa of Santiago de Chile, Chile.
20. Archbishop Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
21. Archbishop Bernard Agre of Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
22. Archbishop Louis-Marie Bille of Lyon, France.
23. Archbishop Ignacio Antonio Velasco Garcia, S.D.B., of Caracas, Venezuela.
24. Archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne of Lima, Peru.
25. Archbishop Francisco Alvarez Martinez of Toledo, Spain.
26. Archbishop Claudio Hummes, O.F.M., of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
27. Archbishop Varkey Vithayathil, C.SS.R, archbishop major of Ernakulam-Angamaly of the Syro-Malabars, India.
28. Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J., of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
29. Archbishop Jose da Cruz Policarpo, patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal.
30. Archbishop Severino Poletto of Turin, Italy.
31. Archbishop Cormac Murphy-O'Connor of Westminster, Great Britain.
32. Archbishop Edward Michael Egan of New York, U.S.A.

At this point the Pope said: "I wish to raise to the dignity of a cardinal two venerable prelates and three well-deserving ecclesiastics, especially worthy for their commitment in service to the Church. They are:

1. His Beatitude Stephanos II Ghattas, C.M., patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts.
2. Archbishop Jean Honore, emeritus of Tours.
3. Fr. Roberto Tucci, president of the Administrative Committee of Vatican Radio.
4. Msgr. Leo Scheffczyk of the archdiocese of Munchen und Freising.
5. Fr. Avery Dulles, S.J., professor emeritus of Fordham University of New York, U.S.A.

"The new cardinals come from every part of the world," added John Paul II. "In them we can see the universality of the Church with the multiplicity of her ministries: along with the prelates who have given worthy service to the Holy See, there are pastors who spend their energy in direct contact with the faithful.
"I also have the intention of announcing very soon the names of the cardinals whom I have reserved 'in pectore'," he said in concluding remarks. "There are many other persons who are very dear to me and who, through their dedicated service to the people of God, would be worthy of being raised to the dignity of cardinal. I hope at a future moment to have the occasion to give witness, in this same way, to them and to those countries which have my esteem and my affection."

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