Vatican City, 4 December 2015 (VIS) –
Pope Francis announced, at the end of today's Angelus, that on 14
February 2015, feast of St. Valentine, a consistory will be held for
the creation of twenty new cardinals – fifteen electors and five
non-electors – originating from fourteen countries from all over
the world, demonstrating “an indissoluble bond between the Church
of Rome and the particular Churches present throughout the world”.
The day after the consistory, the Holy
Father will preside at a concelebration with the new cardinals, while
on 12 and 13 February a consistory will take place with all the
cardinals to reflect on the orientations and proposals for reform of
the Roman Curia.
The new cardinal electors are:
- Archbishop Dominique Mamberti,
titular of Sagona, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic
Signatura;
- Patriarch Manuel Jose Macario do
Nascimento Clemente of Lisbon, Portugal;
- Archbishop Berhaneyesus Demerew
Souraphiel, C.M., of Addis Abeba, Ethiopia;
- Archbishop John Atcherley Dew of
Wellington, New Zealand;
- Archbishop Edoardo Menichelli of
Ancona-Osimo, Italy;
- Archbishop Pierre Nguyen Van Nhon of
Ha Noi, Vietnam;
- Archbishop Alberto Suarez Inda of
Morelia, Mexico;
- Archbishop Charles Maung Bo, S.D.B.,
of Yangon, Myanmar;
- Archbishop Francis Xavier Kriengsak
Kovithavanij of Bangkok, Thailand;
- Archbishop Francesco Montenegro of
Agrigento, Italy;
- Archbishop Daniel Fernando Sturla
Berhouet, S.D.B., of Montevideo, Uruguay;
- Archbishop Ricardo Blazquez Perez of
Valladolid, Spain;
- Bishop Jose Luis Lacunza Maestrojuan,
O.A.R., of David, Panama;
- Bishop Arlindo Gomes Furtado of
Santiago de Cabo Verde, Cape Verde;
- Bishop Soane Patita Paini Mafi of
Tonga, Tonga.
The five non-electors are:
- Archbishop Jose de Jesus Pimiento
Rodriguez, emeritus of Manizales, Colombia;
- Archbishop Luigi De Magistris,
pro-major penitentiary emeritus, Italy;
- Archbishop Karl-Joseph Rauber,
apostolic nuncio, Germany;
- Archbishop Luis Hector Villalba,
emeritus of Tucuman, Argentina;
- Bishop Julio Duarte Langa, emeritus
of Xai-Xai, Mozambique.
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