Catholic World News News Feature
51 new archbishops to receive pallium June 26, 2007
The Vatican has provided a complete list of the metropolitan archbishops who will receive the pallium from Pope Benedict XVI at a ceremony in the Vatican basilica on June 29, the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. The pallium is a liturgical vestment symbolizing the authority of a metropolitan archbishop. A white woolen strip decorated by six black crosses, it is worn across the shoulders, outside the chasuable. It is worn only by archbishops, and only on formal liturgical occasions.
The vestment is made from wool that is shorn from lambs that are blessed by the Pope, in another ancient Roman tradition, on the feast of St. Agnes, January 21. These vestments are stored in the Vatican basilica until the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, when the new metropolitan archbishops travel to Rome to receive them, in a ceremony that accents the communion between these prelates and the Holy See.
This year 46 newly appointed archbishops will receive the pallium during the Friday ceremony at the Vatican. Another 5 new metropolitans, who are unable to come to Rome, will receive the pallium in their own archdioceses.
The archbishops participating in the June 29 ceremony will be:
- Jose Antonio Eguren Anselmi of Piura, Peru
- Robert Le Gall O.S.B., of Toulouse, France
- Dominic Lumon of Imphal, India
- Douglas Young S.V.D., of Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea
- Barthelemy Djabla of Gagnoa, Ivory Coast
- Cyprian Kizito Lwanga of Kampala, Uganda
- Angelo Bagnasco of Genoa, Italy
- Paul-Simeon Ahouanan Djro O.F.M., of Bouake, Cote d'Ivoire
- Oswald Gracias of Bombay, India
- Javier Augusto del Rio Alba of Arequipa, Peru
- Edward Ozorowski of Bialystok, Poland
- Romulo Geolina Valles of Zamboanga, Philippines
- Calogero La Piana S.D.B., of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela, Italy
- Antonio Muniz Fernandes O. Carm., of Maceio, Brazil
- Rafael Romo Munoz of Tijuana, Mexico
- Jose Guadalupe Martin Rabago of Leon, Mexico
- Pedro Aranda Diaz-Munoz of Tulancingo, Mexico
- Rogelio Cabrera Lopez of Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico
- Evariste Ngoyagoye of Bujumbura, Burundi
- Filipe Neri Antonio Sebastiao do Rosario Ferrao of Goa and Damao, India
- Paul R. Ruzoka of Tabora, Tanzania
- Gerard Pettipas C.Ss.R., of Grouard-McLennan, Canada
- Paul Cremona O.P., of Malta, Malta
- Marcel Madila Basanguka of Kananga, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Thomas Christopher Collins of Toronto, Canada
- Paolo Romeo of Palermo, Italy
- Ricardo Ezzati Andrello S.D.B., of Concepcion, Chile
- Orlando Antonio Corrales Garcia of Santa Fe de Antioquia, Colombia
- Jose Alberto Moura C.S.S., of Montes Claros, Brazil.
- Dionisio Guillermo Garcia Ibanez of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
- Albert D'Souza of Agra, India
- Kazimierz Nycz of Warsaw, Poland
- Csaba Ternyak of Eger, Hungary
- Odilo Pedro Scherer of Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Richard William Smith of Edmonton, Canada
- Pierre d'Ornellas of Rennes, France
- Reinaldo Del Prette Lissot of Valencia en Venezuela, Venezuela
- Hipolito Reyes Larios of Jalapa, Mexico
- Geraldo Lyrio Rocha of Mariana, Brazil
- Oscar Julio Vian Morales S.D.B., of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango- Tontonicapan, Guatemala
- Terrence Thomas Prendergast S.J., of Ottawa, Canada
- Joao Bosco Oliver de Faria of Diamantina, Brazil
- Brendan Michael O'Brien of Kingston, Canada
- Buti Joseph Tlhagale O.M.I. of Johannesburg, South Africa
- Joseph Edward Kurtz of Louisville, US
- Leo Cornelio S.V.D., of Bhopal, India
- Denis Komivi Amuzu-Dzakpah of Lome, Togo
- Denis Kiwanuka Lote of Tororo, Uganda
- Telesphore George Mpundu of Lusaka, Zambia
- Vincentius Sensi Potokota of Ende, Indonesia
- John Choi Young-su of Daegu, Korea
