Pope reminds new archbishops of bonds to suffragan dioceses, Holy See
June 30, 2011
Pope Benedict XVI held a private audience on June 30 with the 40 archbishops who had received the palllium in a ceremony the previous day.
The Pope reminded the newly appointed archbishops—who were accompanied by family members—that the pallium “reminds you of your specific responsibility toward your suffragan churches and your special bond of unity with the See of Peter.”
The metropolitan archbishops who received the pallium from the Holy Father on June 29, the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, are:
- Archbishop Zbignev Stankevics of Riga, Lithuania
- Archbishop Ruben Salazar Gomez of Bogota, Colombia
- Archbishop Antoine Ganye Jude of Cotonou, Benin
- Archbishop Fausto Gabriel Travez Travez OFM of Quito, Ecuador
- Archbishop James Peter Sartain of Seattle, Washington
- Oscar Julio Vian Morales S.D.B. of Guatemala City, Guatemala
- Archbishop Gonzalo Restrepo Restrepo of Manizales, Colombia
- Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia of Turin, Italy
- Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller MSPS of San Antonio, Texas
- Archbishop Jose Serofia Palma of Cebu, Philippines
- Archbishop Pedro Brito Guimaraes of Palmas, Brazil
- Archbishop Juan Alberto Puiggari of Parana, Argentina
- Archbishop Thaddeus Cho Hwan-kil of Daegu, Korea
- Archbishop Jude Thaddaeus Ruwa'ichi OFMCap of Mwanza, Tanzania
- Archbishop Jairo Jaramillo Monsalve of Barranquilla, Colombia
- Archbishop Paul Yembuado Ouedraogo of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
- Archbishop William Slattery OFM of Pretoria, South Africa
- Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati Andrello SDB of Santiago de Chile, Chile
- Archbishop Paul Stagg Coakley of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Archbishop Murilo Sabastiao Ramos Krieger of San Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
- Archbishop Marjan Turnsek of Maribor, Slovenia
- Archbishop Remi Joseph Gustave Sainte-Marie MAfr of Lilongwe, Malawi
- Archbishop Gerard-Cyprien Lacroix of Quebec, Canada
- Archbishop Jose Horacio Gomez of Los Angeles, California
- Archbishop Thumma Bala of Hyderabad, India
- Archbishop Augustine Obiora Akubeze of Benin City, Nigeria
- Archbishop Vincenzo Bertolone SDP of Catanzaro-Squillace, Italy
- Archbishop Luis María Perez de Onraita Aguirre of Malanje, Angola
- Archbishop Jose Manuel Imbamba of Saurimo, Angola
- Archbishop Jacinto Bergmann of Pelotas, Brazil
- Archbishop Helio Adelar Rubert of Santa María, Brazil
- Archbishop Pedro Ercilio Simon of Passo Fundo, Brazil
- Archbishop Charles Henry Dufour of Kingston, Jamaica
- Archbishop George Stack of Cardiff, Wales
- Archbishop Fernando Natalio Chomali Garib of Concepcion, Chile
- Archbishop Dimas Lara Barbosa of Campo Grande, Brazil
- Archbishop Dario de Jesus Monsalve Mejia of Cali, Colombia
- Archbishop Pierre Marie Carre of Montpellier, France.
- Archbishop Sergio Da Rocha of Brasilia, Brazil
- Archbishop Sergio Lasam Utleg of Tuguegarao, Philippines
- Archbishop Johannes Maria Trilaksyanta Pujasumarta of Semarang, Indonesia
- Archbishop Guire Poulard of Port-au-Prince, Haiti
- Archbishop John Barwa S.V.D. of Cuttack-Bhubaneshwar, India
- Archbishop Lewis Zeigler of Monrovia, Liberia
- Archbishop Pascal N'koue of Parakou, Benin
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Further information:
- The Pallium, Bond of Unity with the See of Peter (VIS)
- Metropolitan Archbishops Who Received the Pallium (VIS)
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