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The Pope's new cardinals

 


September 28, 2003 - Pope John Paul II named 30 new cardinals on Sunday, as well as one unnamed prelate. Here is a list of the appointees who will be elevated at a consistory on 21 October. 


Monsignor Jean-Louis Tauran, France, Vatican foreign minister 

Monsignor Renato Martino, Italy, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace 

Monsignor Francesco Marchisano, Italy, Archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica 

Monsignor Julian Herranz, Spain, head of the Vatican Office of Legislative Texts 

Monsignor Javier Lozano Barragan, Mexico, head of Vatican office of Health Care 

Monsignor Stephen Fumio Hamao, Japan, head of Vatican office of Migrants 

Monsignor Attilio Nicora, Italy, head of the Administration of Patrimony of the Holy See 

Residential archbishops: 

Monsignor Angelo Scola, Italy, Patriarch of Venice 

Monsignor Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, Nigeria, Archbishop of Lagos 

Monsignor Bernard Panafieu, France, Archbishop of Marseille 

Monsignor Gabriel Zubeir Wako, Sudan, Archbishop of Khartoum 

Monsignor Carlos Amigo Vallejo, Spain, Archbishop of Seville 

Monsignor Justin Rigali, United States, Archbishop of Philadelphia 

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

Monsignor Eusebio Oscar Scheid, Brazil, Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro 

Monsignor Ennio Antonelli, Italy, Archbishop of Florence 

Monsignor Tarcisco Bertone, Italy, Archbishop of Genoa 

Monsignor Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, Ghana, Archbishop of Cape Coast 

Monsignor Telesphore Placidus Toppo, India, Archbishop of Ranchi 

Monsignor George Pell, Australia, Archbishop of Sydney 

Monsignor Josip Bozanic, Croatia, Archbishop of Zagreb 

Monsignor Jean-Baptiste Pham Minh Man, Vietnam, Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City 

Monsignor Rodolfo Quezada Toruno, Guatemala, Archbishop of Guatemala 

Monsignor Philippe Barbarin, France, Archbishop of Lyon 

Monsignor Peter Erdo, Hungary, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest 

Monsignor Marc Ouellet, Canada, Archbishop of Quebec 

Named for special service to the church: 

The Reverand George Cottier, Switzerland, the pope's personal theologin 

Monsignor Gustaaf Joos, Belgium 

The Reverand Thomas Spidlik, Czech Republic 

The Reverand Stanislaw Nagy, Poland 

And a 31st cardinal named "in pectore" and not made public.

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BBC:  Pope appoints 31 new cardinals

Pope John Paul has appointed 31 new cardinals, stamping his authority on the group that will elect his successor when he dies.