Pope Francis created 14 new cardinal from 11 countries during the Ordinary Public Consistory in Rome’s St. Peter’s Basilica Thursday evening, June 28.
The Pope first announced the names of the new cardinals on Sunday, May 20, following his midday “Regina Coeli” prayer and blessing in St. Peter’s Square.
The cardinals-designate are from Bolivia, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Peru, Madagascar, Mexico and Spain. The Pope explained that the places from where the new cardinals come “expresses the universality of the Church, which continues to announce the merciful love of God to all men and women on earth”. He said their nominations “manifest the unbreakable bond between the See of Peter and the local Churches throughout the world”.
The new Cardinals are:
- His Beatitude Louis Raphaël I Sako – Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon (Iraq)
- Archbishop Luis Ladaria –Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (Spain)
- Archbishop Angelo De Donatis – Vicar General of Rome (Italy)
- Archbishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu – Substitute of the Vatican Secretary of State and Special Delegate for the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (Italy)
- Archbishop Konrad Krajewski – Almoner of the Office of Papal Charities (Poland)
- Archbishop Joseph Coutts of Karachi (Pakistan)
- Bishop António dos Santos Marto of Leiria-Fátima (Portugal)
- Archbishop Pedro Barreto of Huancayo (Peru)
- Archbishop Desiré Tsarahazana of Toamasina (Madagascar)
- Archbishop Giuseppe Petrocchi of L’Aquila (Italy)
- Archbishop Thomas Aquinas Manyo of Osaka (Japan)
- Emeritus Archbishop Sergio Obeso Rivera of Xalapa (Mexico)
- Emeritus Bishop Toribio Ticona Porco of the Territorial Prelature of Corocoro (Bolivia)
- Father Aquilino Bocos Merino of the Claretian order (Spain)
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