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Monday, September 29, 2003

POPE JOHN PAUL NAMES 31 NEW CARDINALS

VATICAN CITY, SEP 28, 2003 (VIS) - Today, the 45th anniversary of his episcopal ordination, Pope John Paul II, in the ninth such consistory of his papacy, named 31 new cardinals, one of whom is "in pectore" or "in the breast." The College of Cardinals will now have 194 members (not including the "in pectore"), of whom 135 are cardinal electors, exceeding by 15 the maximum number of electors established by Pope Paul VI.

The consistory to create the cardinals will be held October 21, less than the traditional month that passes between a Pope making an announcement and creating new cardinals.

Following is the Holy Father's announcement made today just prior to reciting the Angelus with the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square.

"The month of October, the month of the Holy Rosary, is approaching. I entrust to Our Lady in a special way the consistory that I intend to hold on October 21, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of my pontificate. Putting aside once again the established numerical limit, I will create new cardinals.

"Among them are some of my collaborators in the Roman Curia:

Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran: Secretary for Relations with States.

Archbishop Renato Raffaele Martino: President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

Archbishop Francesco Marchisano: Archpriest of the Vatican Basilica.

Archbishop Julian Herranz: President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts.

Archbishop Javier Lozano Barragan: President of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers.

Archbishop Stephen Fumio Hamao: President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People.

Archbishop Attilio Nicora: President of APSA (Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See.

"Then there are 19 pastors of as many local Churches. They are:

Archbishop Angelo Scola, patriarch of Venice, Italy.

Archbishop Anthony Olubunmi Okogie of Lagos, Nigeria.

Archbishop Bernard Panafieu of Marseille, France.

Archbishop Gabriel Zubeir Wako of Khartoum, Sudan.

Archbishop Carlos Amigo Vallejo, O.F.M., of Seville, Spain.

Archbishop Justin Francis Rigali of Philadelphia, U.S.A.

Archbishop Keith Michael Patrick O'Brien of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland.

Archbishop Eusebio Oscar Scheid, S.C.I., of Sao Sebastiao do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Archbishop Ennio Antonelli of Florence, Italy.

Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B., of Genoa, Italy.

Archbishop Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson of Cape Coast, Ghana.

Archbishop Telesphore Placidus Toppo of Ranchi, India.

Archbishop George Pell of Sydney, Australia.

Archbishop Josip Bozanic of Zagreb, Croatia.
Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Pham Minh Man of Hochiminhville, Vietnam.

Archbishop Rodolfo Quezada Toruno of Guatemala, Guatemala.

Archbishop Philippe Barbarin of Lyon, France.

Archbishop Peter Erdo of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary.

Archbishop Marc Ouellet, P.S.S., of Quebec, Canada.

"Among the new cardinals, there are also four priests who are particularly worthy for their commitment to the service of the Church. They are:

Fr. Georges Marie Martin Cottier, O.P., theologian of the Pontifical Household, from Switzerland.

Msgr. Gustaaf Joos of the diocese of Ghent, Belgium.

Fr. Tomas Spidlik, S.J., of the Czech Republic.

Fr. Stanislas Nagy of the Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, (Dehonians), Poland.

"Finally I communicate to you that I have appointed another worthy prelate as cardinal, reserving his name "in pectore."

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