SCHEDULE FOR FEBRUARY 21-22 CONSISTORY, COURTESY VISITS

VATICAN CITY, FEB 16, 2001 (VIS) - On Wednesday, February 21, 2001 at 10:30 a.m. in St. Peter's Square. Pope John Paul II will hold a Public Ordinary Consistory for the creation of 44 new cardinals, according to a note from the Office of the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff.

That same afternoon, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Paul VI Hall and various rooms of the Apostolic Palace, the new cardinals will receive all those who wish to pay them a courtesy call. A list of these locations follows:

PAUL VI HALL:

ATRIUM: Cardinals Mario Francesco Pompedda, Severino Poletto, Roberto Tucci, S.J., Desmond Connel, Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Theodore Edgar McCarrick, Edward Michael Egan and Avery Dulles, S.J.

AUDIENCE HALL: Cardinals Giovanni Battista Re, Francois Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan, Jose de Cruz Policarpo, Sergio Sebastiani, Zenon Grocholewski, Jose Saraiva Martins, C.M.F., Crescenzio Sepe, Marian Jaworski and Lubomyr Husar, M.S.U.

APOSTOLIC PALACE:

SALA REGIA: Cardinals Stephanos II Ghattas, C.M., and Ignace Moussa I Daoud.

HALL OF BLESSINGS: Cardinals Janis Pujats, Audrys Juozas Backis, Walter Kasper, Johannes Joachim Degenhardt, Karl Lehmann and Leo Scheffczyk.

SALA DUCALE: Cardinals Ivan Dias and Varkey Vithayathil, C.SS.R.

SALA PARAMENTI 1: Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, O.F.M.

SALA PARAMENTI 2: Cardinal Bernard Agre.

SALA PONTEFICI: Cardinal Jean Honore.

SALA DEI SANTI: Cardinal Louis-Marie Bille.

SALA DELLE ARTI LIBERALI: Cardinal Francisco Alvarez Martinez.

SALA DEL CREDO: Cardinal Jose Gonzalez Zumarraga.

SALA SISTINO: Cardinals Pedro Rubiano Saenz, Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa, Julio Terrazas Sandoval, C.SS.R., Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, S.D.B., Ignacio Antonio Velasco Garcia, S.D.B., Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne and Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J.

VESTIBULE OF THE SALONE SISTINO: Cardinal Jorge Maria Mejia.

GALLERIA LAPIDARIA: Cardinals Claudio Hummes and Geraldo Majella Agnelo.

SALONE DELL'APSA: Cardinal Agostino Cacciavillan.

On Thursday, February 22, feast of the Chair of Peter, at 10:30 a.m. in St. Peter's Square, the Holy Father will preside at a concelebrated Mass with the new cardinals, during which he will give them the cardinal's ring.

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