EIGHT CARDINALS TO TAKE POSSESSION OF TITLES, DIACONATES

VATICAN CITY, MAY 14, 2001 (VIS) - According to a note from the Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff, the following cardinals will take possession of their diaconate or title churches next weekend:

- Saturday, May 19 at 6 p.m.: Cardinal Audrys Juozas Backis, archbishop metropolitan of Vilnius, Lithuania, the title of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Via Gallia, on Via Urbisaglia, 2.

- Sunday, May 20 at 11 a.m.: Cardinal Marian Jaworski, metropolitan archbishop of Lviv of the Latins, Ukraine, the title of St. Sixtus, Piazzale Numa Pompilio, 8.

- Sunday, May 20 at 11 a.m.: Cardinal Julio Terrazas Sandoval, C.SS.R., metropolitan archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, the title of St. John the Baptist de Rossi, Via Cesare Baronio, 127.

- Sunday, May 20 at 11 a.m.: Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, O.F.M., metropolitan archbishop of Durban, South Africa, the title of St. Francis of Assisi at Acilia, Largo Cesidio da Fossa, 18.

- Sunday, May 20 at 11 a.m.: Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil, C.SS.R., major archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly of the Siro-Malabars, the title of St. Bernard alla Terme, Via Torino, 94.

- Sunday, May 20 at 11:30 a.m.: Cardinal Geraldo Majella Agnelo, metropolitan archbishop of Sao Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, the title of St. Gregory the Great at Magliana Nuova, Piazza Certaldo, 85.

- Sunday, May 20 at 12 noon: Cardinal Francisco Alvarez Martinez, metropolitan archbishop of Toledo, Spain, the title of Mary Queen of Peace at Monte Verde, Via Maurizio Quadrio, 21.

- Sunday, May 20 at 6:30 p.m.: Cardinal Claudio Hummes, O.F.M., metropolitan archbishop of Sao Paulo, Brazil, the title of St. Anthony of Padua in Via Merulana, 124.

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