METROPOLITAN ARCHBISHOPS WHO WILL RECEIVE THE PALLIUM

VATICAN CITY, 26 JUN 2009 (VIS) - At 9.30 a.m. Monday 29 June, Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, Apostles, Benedict XVI will preside at a Eucharistic concelebration with the following 34 metropolitan archbishops upon whom he will impose the pallium:

 - Archbishop Ghaleb Moussa Abdalla Bader of Algiers, Algeria.

 - Archbishop Domingo Diaz Martinez of Tulancingo, Mexico.

 - Archbishop Pierre-Andre Fournier of Rimouski, Canada.

 - Archbishop Sergio da Rocha, Brazil.

 - Archbishop Giuseppe Bertori of Florence, Italy.

 - Archbishop Salvatore Pappalardo of Siracusa, Italy.

 - Archbishop Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki of Lviv of the Latins, Ukraine.

 - Archbishop Mauricio Grotto de Camargo of Botucatu, Brazil.

 - Archbishop Joseph Ake Yapo of Gagnoa, Ivory Coast.

 - Archbishop Paul Mandla Khumalo C.M.M. of Pretoria, South Africa.

 - Archbishop Marcel Utembi Tapa of Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo.

 - Archbishop Manuel Felipe Diaz Sanchez of Calabozo, Venezuela.

 - Archbishop Jose Luis Escobar Alas of San Salvador, El Salvador.

 - Archbishop J. Michael Miller, C.S.B. of Vancouver, Canada.

 - Archbishop Allen Henry Vigneron of Detroit, U.S.A.

 - Archbishop Carlos Osoro Sierra of Valencia, Spain.

 - Archbishop Gil Antonio Moreira of Juiz de Fora, Brazil.

 - Archbishop Victor Sanchez Espinosa of Puebla de los Angeles, Mexico.

 - Archbishop Carlos Aguiar Retes of Tlalnepantla, Mexico.

 - Archbishop Anicetus Bongsu Antonius Sinaga O.F.M. Cap. of Bedan, Indonesia.

 - Archbishop Philip Naameh of Tamale, Ghana.

 - Archbishop Ismael Rueda Sierra of Bucaramanga, Colombia.

 - Archbishop Andrzej Dziega of Szczecin-Kamien, Poland.

 - Archbishop Timothy Michael Dolan of New York, U.S.A.

 - Archbishop Orani Joao Tempesta O. Cist. of Sao Sebastiao do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

 - Archbishop Vincent Gerard Nichols of Westminster, England.

 - Archbishop Domenico Umberto D'Ambrosio of Lecce, Italy.

 - Archbishop Braulio Rodriguez Plata of Toledo, Spain.

 - Archbishop Robert James Carlson of Saint Louis, U.S.A.

 - Archbishop Philippe Ouedraogo of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

 - Archbishop Francis Xavier Kriengsak Kovithavanij of Bangkok, Thailand.

 - Archbishop George Joseph Lucas of Omaha, U.S.A.

 - Archbishop Gregory Michael Aymond of New Orleans, U.S.A.

 - Archbishop Albert Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige Don of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
OCL/PALLIUM/METROPOLITAN ARCHBISHOPS            VIS 20090626 (360)