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:
- Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Berlin
- Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega of Guadalajara
- Archbishop Francesco Moraglia, patriarch of Venice
- Archbishop Alfredo Horacio Zecca of Tucuman, Argentina
- Archbishop Mario Alberto Molina Palma. of Los Altos, Guatemala
- Archbishop Charles Joseph Chaput of Philadelphia
- Archbishop Luc Cyr of Sherbrooke, Canada
- Archbishop Salvador Pineiro Garcia
- Calderon of Ayacucho, Peru
- Archbishop Francesco Panfilo of Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
- Archbishop Ulises Antonio Gutierrez Reyes of Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela
- Archbishop Stanislaw Budzik of Lublin, Poland
- Archbishop Wilson Tadeu Jonck of Florianopolis, Brazil
- Archbishop Paul
- Andre Durocher of Gatineau, Canada
- Archbishop Luis Antonio G. Tagle of Manila, Philippines
- Archbishop Patrick D’Rozario of Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Archbishop Wiktor Pawel Skworc of Katowice, Poland
- Archbishop Jose F. Advincula of Capiz, Philippines
- Archbishop Filippo Santoro of Taranto, Italy
- Archbishop Jose Francisco Rezende Dias of Niteroi, Brazil
- Archbishop Esmeraldo Barreto de Farias of Porto Velho, Brazil
- Archbishop Jaime Vieira Rocha of Natal, Brazil
- Archbishop Joseph Harris of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
- Archbishop Waclaw Depo of Czestochowa, Poland
- Archbishop Ignatius Chama of Kasama, Zambia
- Archbishop Pascal Wintzer of Poitiers, France
- Archbishop John Moolachira of Guwahati, India
- Archbishop William Charles Skurla of Pittsburgh of the Byzantines
- Archbishop Joseph Coutts of Karachi, Pakistan
- Archbishop Romulo Geolina Valles of Davao, Philippines
- Archbishop Airton Jose dos Santos of Campinas, Brazil
- Archbishop Timothy Costelloe of Perth, Australia
- Archbishop Jacinto Furtado de Brito Sobrinho of Teresina, Brazil
- Archbishop Thomas D’Souza of Calcutta, India
- Archbishop Arrigo Miglio of Cagliari, Italy
- Archbishop John F. Du of Palo, Philippines
- Archbishop Paulo Mendes Peixoto of Uberaba, Brazil
- Archbishop Christian Lepine of Montreal, Canada
- Archbishop William Edward Lori of Baltimore
- Archbishop Mark Benedict Coleridge of Brisbane, Australia
- Archbishop Jesus Carlos Cabrero Romero of San Luis Potosi, Mexico
- Archbishop Andrew Yeom Soo jung of Seoul, Korea
- Archbishop Benedito Roberto of Malanje, Angola
- Archbishop Alfred Adewale Martins of Lagos, Nigeria and
- 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:
- Archbishop Gabriel Justice Yaw Anokye of Kumasi, Ghana and
- Archbishop Valery Vienneau of Moncton, Canada
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