TITULAR AND DIACONATE CHURCHES ASSIGNED TO NEW CARDINALS

VATICAN CITY, FEB 21, 2001 (VIS) - Following are the names of the 44 new cardinals created by Pope John Paul II in this morning's consistory as well as the titular or diaconate churches he assigned to them:

1. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops: Title of Most Holy Twelve Apostles.

2. Cardinal Francois Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace: Diaconate of Holy Mary of the Stairs.

3. Cardinal Agostino Cacciavillan, president of APSA (Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See): Diaconate of the Holy Guardian Angels at Citta Giardino.

4. Cardinal Sergio Sebastiani, president of the Prefecture of the Economic Affairs of the Holy See: Diaconate of St. Eustache.

5. Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education: Diaconate of St. Nicholas in Prison.

6. Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, C.F.M., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints: Diaconate of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart.

7. Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, secretary general of the Committee of the Great Jubilee: Diaconate of the Most Merciful Father.

8. Cardinal Jorge Maria Mejia, archivist and librarian of Holy Roman Church: Diaconate of St. Jerome of Charity.

9. His Beatitude Ignace Moussa I Daoud, prefect of the Congregation for Oriental Churches: Patriarchal See of Antioch of the Syrians.

10. Cardinal Mario Francesco Pompedda, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature: Diaconate of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Via Ardeatina.

11. Bishop Walter Kasper, emeritus of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity: Diaconate of All Saints in Via Appia Nuova.

12. Cardinal Antonio Jose Gonzalez Zumarraga of Quito, Ecuador: Title of Our Lady "in via".

13. Cardinal Ivan Dias of Bombay, India: Title of Holy Spirit at Ferratella.

14. Cardinal Geraldo Majella Agnelo of Sao Salvador da Bahia, Brazil: Title of St. Gregory the Great at Magliana Nuova.

15. Cardinal Pedro Rubiano Saenz of Bogota, Colombia: Title of the Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
16. Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick of Washington, U.S.A.: Title of Saints Nereus and Achilleus.

17. Cardinal Desmond Connell of Dublin, Ireland: Title of St. Sylvester in Capite.

18. Cardinal Audrys Juozas Backis of Vilnius, Lithuania: Title of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Via Gallia.

19. Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa of Santiago de Chile, Chile: Title of Our Lady of Peace.

20. Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, S.D.B., of Tegucigalpa, Honduras: Title of Our Lady of Hope.

21. Cardinal Bernard Agre of Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Title of St. John Chrysostom in Monte Sacro Alto.

22. Cardinal Louis-Marie Bille of Lyon, France: Title of St. Peter's in Chains.

23. Cardinal Ignacio Antonio Velasco Garcia, S.D.B., of Caracas, Venezuela: Title of Santa Maria Domenica Mazzarella.

24. Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne of Lima, Peru: Title of St. Camillus de Lellis.

25. Cardinal Francisco Alvarez Martinez of Toledo, Spain: Title of Holy Mary, Queen of Peace in Monte Verde.

26. Cardinal Claudio Hummes, O.F.M., of Sao Paulo, Brazil: Title of St. Anthony of Padua in Via Merulana.

27. Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil, C.SS.R, archbishop major of Ernakulam-Angamaly of the Syro-Malabars, India: Title of St. Bernard at the Baths.

28. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J., of Buenos Aires, Argentina: Title of St. Robert Bellarmine.

29. Cardinal Jose da Cruz Policarpo, patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal: Title of St. Anthony in Campo Marzio.

30. Cardinal Severino Poletto of Turin, Italy: Title of St. Joseph in Via Trionfale, pro hac vice titolo presbiterale.

31. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor of Westminster, Great Britain: Title of Holy Mary above Minerva.

32. Cardinal Edward Michael Egan of New York, U.S.A.: Title of Sts. John and Paul.

33. His Beatitude Stephanos II Ghattas, C.M., patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts.

34. Cardinal Jean Honore, emeritus of Tours: Title of Holy Mary of Health at Primavalle.

35. Cardinal Roberto Tucci, president of the Administrative Committee of Vatican Radio: Diaconate of St. Ignatius of Loyola at Campo Marzio.

36. Cardinal Leo Scheffczyk of the archdiocese of Munchen und Freising: Diaconate of St. Francis Xavier at Garbatella.

37. Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J., professor emeritus of Fordham University of New York, U.S.A.: Diaconate of the Most Holy Names of Jesus and Mary in Via Lata.

38. Cardinal Marian Jaworski of Lviv of the Latins, Ukraine. 39. Cardinal Janis Pujats of Riga, Latvia: Title of St. Sixtus.

40. Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, major archbishop of Lviv of the Ukrainians: Title of St. Sophia in Via Boccea.

41. Cardinal Johannes Joachim Degenhart of Paderborn, Germany: Title of St. Liborius.

42. Cardinal Julio Terrazas Sandoval, C.SS.R., of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia: Title of St. John the Baptist of Rossi.

43. Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, O.F.M., of Durban, South Africa: Title of St. Brancis of Assisi in Acilia.

44. Cardinal Karl Lehmann of Mainz, Germany: Title of St. Leo I.

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