Vatican announces changes in pallium ceremony

June 27, 2012

The Vatican has announced a change in the ritual in which new archbishops will receive the pallium from Pope Benedict XVI on June 29, the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul.

The pallium is a thin white woolen vestment, worn around the neck, as a sign of the authority of a metropolitan archbishop. Each year on the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, the Pope confers the pallium on the archbishops who have been installed during the past 12 months.

This year, the actual imposition of the pallium will take place before the Mass, rather than after the homily. The Vatican announced that the change was intended to make the ceremony shorter, to avoid interrupting the liturgy, and to make it clear that the imposition of the pallium, while an honored tradition, is not a sacramental rite.

The Vatican also provided a full list of the 46 prelates who will receive the pallium at this year’s ceremony:

1. Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Berlin
2. Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega of Guadalajara
3. Archbishop Francesco Moraglia, patriarch of Venice
4. Archbishop Alfredo Horacio Zecca of Tucuman, Argentina
5. Archbishop Mario Alberto Molina Palma. of Los Altos, Guatemala
6. Archbishop Charles Joseph Chaput of Philadelphia
7. Archbishop Luc Cyr of Sherbrooke, Canada
8. Archbishop Salvador Pineiro Garcia
9. Calderon of Ayacucho, Peru
10. Archbishop Francesco Panfilo of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
11. Archbishop Ulises Antonio Gutierrez Reyes of Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela
12. Archbishop Stanislaw Budzik of Lublin, Poland
13. Archbishop Wilson Tadeu Jonck of Florianopolis, Brazil
14. Archbishop Paul
15. Andre Durocher of Gatineau, Canada
16. Archbishop Luis Antonio G. Tagle of Manila, Philippines
17. Archbishop Patrick D’Rozario of Dhaka, Bangladesh
18. Archbishop Wiktor Pawel Skworc of Katowice, Poland
19. Archbishop Jose F. Advincula of Capiz, Philippines
20. Archbishop Filippo Santoro of Taranto, Italy
21. Archbishop Jose Francisco Rezende Dias of Niteroi, Brazil
22. Archbishop Esmeraldo Barreto de Farias of Porto Velho, Brazil
23. Archbishop Jaime Vieira Rocha of Natal, Brazil
24. Archbishop Joseph Harris of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
25. Archbishop Waclaw Depo of Czestochowa, Poland
26. Archbishop Ignatius Chama of Kasama, Zambia
27. Archbishop Pascal Wintzer of Poitiers, France
28. Archbishop John Moolachira of Guwahati, India
29. Archbishop William Charles Skurla of Pittsburgh of the Byzantines
30. Archbishop Joseph Coutts of Karachi, Pakistan
31. Archbishop Romulo Geolina Valles of Davao, Philippines
32. Archbishop Airton Jose dos Santos of Campinas, Brazil
33. Archbishop Timothy Costelloe of Perth, Australia
34. Archbishop Jacinto Furtado de Brito Sobrinho of Teresina, Brazil
35. Archbishop Thomas D’Souza of Calcutta, India
36. Archbishop Arrigo Miglio of Cagliari, Italy
37. Archbishop John F. Du of Palo, Philippines
38. Archbishop Paulo Mendes Peixoto of Uberaba, Brazil
39. Archbishop Christian Lepine of Montreal, Canada
40. Archbishop William Edward Lori of Baltimore
41. Archbishop Mark Benedict Coleridge of Brisbane, Australia
42. Archbishop Jesus Carlos Cabrero Romero of San Luis Potosi, Mexico
43. Archbishop Andrew Yeom Soo jung of Seoul, Korea
44. Archbishop Benedito Roberto of Malanje, Angola
45. Archbishop Alfred Adewale Martins of Lagos, Nigeria and
46. Archbishop Samuel Joseph Aquila of Denver

The following two archbishops will receive the pallium in their metropolitan sees: Two other archbishops, who are unable to attend the ceremony in Rome, will receive the pallium in their own archdioceses:

1. Archbishop Gabriel Justice Yaw Anokye of Kumasi, Ghana and
2. Archbishop Valery Vienneau of Moncton, Canada

 

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Further information:

• List of Archbishops Who Will Receive the Pallium and Changes to the Rite of Imposition (VIS)