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New Cardinals announced - to be created at February Consistory


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The Holy Father, Pope Francis has announced the list of Bishops and Archbishops who are to become cardinals at the next consistory on February 14th. They are:

Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura
Archbishop Manuel José Macario do Nascimento Clemente, Patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal
Archbishop Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, of Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
Archbishop John Atcherley Dew of Wellington, New Zealand
Archbishop Edoardo Menichelli of Ancona-Osimo, Italy
Archbishop Pierre Nguyên Văn Nhon of Hà Nôi, Vietnam
Archbishop Alberto Suàrez 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, of Montevideo, Uruguay
Archbishop Ricardo Blázquez Pérez of Vallodolid, Spain
Bishop José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán of David, Panamá
Bishop Arlindo Gomes Furtado, of Santiago de Cabo Verde, Archipelago of Cape Verde
Bishop Soane Patita Paini Mafi of Tonga, Island of Tonga

In addition, Pope Francis has joined to the Members of the College of Cardinals “five archbishops and bishops emeriti who are distinguished for their pastoral charity in the service of the Holy See and of the Church." They are:

José de Jesús Pimiento Rodriguez, Archbishop Emeritus of Manizales
Archbishop Luigi De Magistris, Major Pro-Penitentiary Emeritus
Archbishop Karl-Joseph Rauber, Apostolic Nuncio
Luis Héctor Villaba, Archbishop Emeritus of Tucumán
Júlio Duarte Langa, Bishop Emeritus of Xai-Xai