At the conclusion of today's Angelus, Pope Francis announced the creation of 21 new cardinals. The tenth consistory in eleven years of pontificate will take place on December 8, 2024, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.
As usual in the cardinal appointments of Pope Francis, the prelates come from many parts of the world. For the first time there is no Spanish prelate. There are 4 Italian bishops, 4 Latin American bishops and none from the United States.
This is the complete list:
1. H.E. Msgr. Angelo Acerbi, Apostolic Nuncio.
Carlos Gustavo CASTILLO MATTASOGLIO, Archbishop of Lima (Peru).
Vicente BOKALIC IGLIC C.M., Archbishop of Santiago del Estero (Primate of Argentina).
4. Luis Gerardo CABRERA HERRERA, O.F.M., Archbishop of Guayaquil (Ecuador).
5. Archbishop Fernando Natalio CHOMALÍ GARIB Archbishop of Santiago de Chile (Chile).
6. Bishop Tarcisio Isao KIKUCHI, S.V.D., Archbishop of Tokyo (Japan).
7. Bishop Pablo Virgilio SIONGCO DAVID, Bishop of Kalookan (Philippines).
8. Ladislav NEMET, S.V.D., Archbishop of Beograd-Smederevo, (Serbia).
9. Jaime SPENGLER, O.F.M., Archbishop of Porto Alegre (Brazil).
10. Ignace BESSI DOGBO, Archbishop of Abidjan (Costa d'Avorio).
11. Jean-Paul VESCO, O.P., Archbishop of Alger (Algeria).
12. Bishop Paskalis Bruno SYUKUR, O.F.M., Bishop of Bogor (Indonesia).
13. Dominique Joseph MATHIEU, O.F.M. Conv., Archbishop of Teheran Ispahan (Iran).
14. Archbishop Roberto REPOLE, Archbishop of Turin (Italy).
15. Bishop Baldassare REINA, Auxiliary Bishop of Rome, Vicar General of the Diocese.
16. Francis LEO, Archbishop of Toronto (Canada).
17. H.E. Msgr. Rolandas MAKRICKAS, Coadjutor Archbishop of St. Mary Major.
18. Mykola BYCHOK, C.Ss.R., Bishop of the Eparchy of Saints Peter and Paul of Melbourne of the Ukrainians.
Timothy Peter Joseph RADCLIFFE, OP, theologian.
Fabio BAGGIO, C.S., undersecretary of the section for Migrants and Refugees of the Dicastery for Integral Human Service.
George Jacob KOOVAKAD, official of the Secretariat of State, responsible for papal travel.
