Pope announces 13 new Cardinals
for the missionary Church
At the Angelus Pope Francis reads the names of those
prelates who will receive the red hat on October 5th, the vigil of the Amazon
Synod.
After reciting the Angelus in St Peter’s Square
on Sunday, Pope Francis announced a consistory to be held on 5 October for
the nomination of 10 new Cardinals. He said that the places where these new
Cardinals come from express the missionary vocation of the Church as she
continues to announce the merciful love of God to every person on earth. After
reading their names, the Pope asked everyone to pray for the new Cardinals
so that, confirming their adhesion to Christ, they might help in his ministry
as Bishop of Rome for the good of all the faithful Holy People of God.
The names of the new Cardinals are:
1. Bishop Miguel Angel Ayuso Guixot, mccj –
President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue – was born
in Seville (Spain) in 1952. He professed final vows as a Combini Missionary in
1980 and was ordained a priest the same year, beginning his priestly life as a
missionary in Egypt and Sudan until 2002. In 1982 he received a licentiate in
Arab and Islamic studies at PISAI in Rome and in 2000, a doctorate in dogmatic
theology from the University of Granada. He was professor of Islamic studies in
Khartoum and in Cairo, and at the Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic
studies where he eventually became Dean until 2012. He has led various
interreligious meetings in Africa (Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia and
Mozambique). On 20 June 2012, Pope Benedict XVI nominated him Secretary of the
Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. He was consecrated Bishop in
March of 2016 with the titular see of Luperciana. This past 25 May he was
nominated President of the Pontifical council for Interreligious Dialogue. He
has published books and articles in international journals. He knows Spanish,
Arabic, English, French and Italian.
2. Archbishop José Tolentino Medonça – Archivist
and Librarian of the Holy Roman Church – was born at Madeira in Portugal
in 1965. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Funchal in 1990, and
received a licentiate in Theology from the Universidade Católica
Portuguesa in Lisbon in 1989, and a licentiate in Biblical Studies
from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome in 1992, followed by a Doctorate
in Biblical Theology from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in
2004. He then became a seminary professor at Funchal, then Rector of the Pontifical
Portuguese College in Rome, then Vice Rector and Professor of Universidade
Católica Portuguesa, as well as being a visiting professor at the Università
Cattoliche of Pernambuco and Rio de Janeiro as well as the Faculties
of Philosophy and Theology at Belo Horizonte in Brazil. In 2011 he became a
consultor for the Pontifical Council of Culture. On 26 June 2018, Pope Francis
nominated him Archivist and Librarian of Holy Roman church, elevating him soon
after to the dignity of Archbishop with the titular see of Suava. He has
published numerous volumes and articles of a theological and exegetical nature,
as well as several works of poetry.
3. Archbishop Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo –
Archbishop of Jakarta – is originally from Java, born in Sedayn in 1950
and ordained a priest in 1976. He obtained a degree in Biblical Theology from
the Pontifical Urbaniana University in 1981 and was a professor of Sacred
Scripture and Rector of the Pontifical Faculty of Theology “Wedabakti” of
Yogyakarta. He was nominated Archbishop of Semarang in 1997 and was transferred
to Jakarta as Coadjutor in 2009, becoming Archbishop on 2010. Since 2006 he has
also been the Military Ordinary for Indonesia. He is the first member of the
diocesan clergy to be named Archbishop of Jakarta. He is a current member of
the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and is the President of the
Episcopal Conference of Indonesia.
4. Archbishop Juan de la Caridad García Rodríguez –
Archbishop de San Cristóbal of Habana – was born in Camagüey in 1948.
After finishing his studies in philosophy and theology at the Seminary of San
Basilio de El Cobre and the Major Seminary of San Carlos y San
Ambrosio in Havana, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1972. He
served in parishes in Morón and Ciego de Avila before becoming pastor in
parishes in Jatibonico and Morón, and then Vicar of what at that time was the
Vicariate of Ciego-Morón. In 1989 he was named pastor of Florida and founded
and became the Director of School for Missionaries in the Diocese of Camagüey.
He was ordained Auxiliary Bishop of Camagüey with the titular see of Gummi in
Proconsolare in 1997, and became its Archbishop in 2002. On 26 April 2016, Pope
Francis nominated him Metropolitan Archbishop of San Cristóbal de La Habana.
5. Archbishop Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, o.f.m. cap –
Archbishop of Kinshasa – was born in 1960 in Boto, in the Diocese of
Molegbe. After completing courses in Philosophy at the Seminary of Bwamanda, he
studied Theology at the Saint Eugène de Mazenod Institute and professed first
vows as a Cappuchin Franciscan in 1981, followed by perpetual profession in
1987. He was ordained a priest in 1988 after which he graduated from the
Accademia Alfonsiana with a degree in Moral Theology. He served as pastor in
Bobito, Professor at the Catholic University of Kinshasa, then as a Major
Superior within the Capuchin community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
He also served as the President of the National Assembly of Major Superiors
(ASUMA) and of the Circumscriptions of the Friars Minor Cappuchins in Africa
(CONCAU). He became Bishop of Bokungu-Ikela in 2005 and afterward became
Apostolic Administrator of Kole, and President of the Episcopal Commission
“Justice and Peace”, Apostolic Administrator of Mbandaka-Bikoro and then its
Archbishop in 2016. In June 2016 he became Vice President of the National
Episcopal Conference of the Congo (CENCO) and on 6 February 2018, Pope Francis
nominated him Coadjutor Archbishop of Kinshasa. In November of the same year,
he became it’s Archbishop.
6. Archbishop Jean-Claude Höllerich, sj –
Archbishop of Luxembourg – was born in 1958 in Differdange in the Grand
Duchy of Luxembourg. His seminary formation took place in Rome at the Pontifical
Gregorian University. In 1981, he entered the Jesuits and received his
formation in the Jesuit Province of Southern Belgium and Luxembourg. After his
novitiate at Namur and two years of practicum in Luxemburg (1983-85), he went
to Japan where he studied the Japanese language and culture. From 1985-89 he
studied theology at Tokyo’s Sophia University and finished his theological
studies in Frankfurt (Germany) with a licentiate. On 21 April 1990 he was
ordained a Jesuit priest and continued his studies of German and German
literature at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich,
receiving a licentiate in 1994. He carried out various pastoral ministries
with Jeunesse étudiante Chrétienne and Communautés Vie
Chrétienne in Luxembourg, as a teacher at the French Vauban in
Luxembourg, as a spiritual director of seminarians at the Major Seminary of
Luxembourg, and Vocation Director. In 1994 he began teaching German and French
as well as European studies at Tokyo’s Sophia University and in 1999 became the
student Chaplain there. He became Rector of the Jesuit community there as well
as Vice-Rector of the University for General and Student Affairs. He also
served as Delegate of the Japanese Episcopal Conference for the preparation and
participation in World Youth Day in Cologne in 2005. On 12 July 2011, Pope
Benedict XVI nominated him Archbishop of Luxembourg.
7. Bishop Alvaro L. Ramazzini Imeri – Bishop of
Huehuetenamgo – was born in Guatemala City in 1947 and was ordained a priest
in 1971 for the Archdiocese of Guatemala after which he received a doctorate in
Canon Law from the Pontifical Gregorian University. He became Professor and
Rector of the Major National Seminary of Guatemala and Pastor of one of the
largest parishes in the Archdiocese of Guatemala. He was ordained Bishop of San
Marcos by St John Paul II in January 1989. He has served in various positions
within the Episcopal Conference of Guatemala, including President from 2006-08.
He participated in the CELAM Assembly in Aparecide in 2007 and in the Special
Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for America in 1997. Currently, he presides
over the Commission for Social Communication and the Pastoral Penitentiary
Commission. Pope Benedict XVI nominated him as Bishop of Huehuetenango in 2012.
8. Archbishop Matteo Zuppi – Archbishop of
Bologna – was born in Rome in 1955 and was ordained for the Diocese of
Palestrina in 1981 after pursuing seminary studies at the diocesan seminary of
Palestrina and the Lateran University. He subsequently studied Philosophy at
the University of Rome where he became incardinated in 1988. In 2006, he
received the honorary title of Chaplain of His Holiness. His various
assignments have been: Rector of the Church of the Holy Cross (alla Lungara)
from 1983-2012, Member of the Presbyteral Council from 1995 to 2012, Assistant
Pastor of Santa Maria in Trastevere from 1981-2000 and then Pastor from 2000 to
2010, Prefect of the 3rd Prefecture of Rome from 2005-2010,
Assistant Ecclesiastic General of the Community of St Egidio from 2000 to 2012,
Parish of Sts Simon and Jude parish in Torre Angela from 2010 to 2012, and from
2011 to 2012 Prefect of the 17th Prefecture of Rome. He became
an Auxiliary Bishop of Rome in 2012 with the titular see of Villanova. On 27
October 2015, Pope Francis nominated him Metropolitan Archbishop of Bologna.
9. Archbishop Cristóbal López Romero, sdb –
Archbishop of Rabat – was born in 1952 in Vélez-Rubio of the Diocese of
Almería in Spain. He entered the Salesians in 1964 and studied Philosophy and
Theology in the Salesian Seminary in Barcelona. He professed first vows as a
Salesian in 1968, followed by solemn profession in 1974, after which he was
ordained a priest in 1979. In 1982 he obtained a licentiate in Information
Sciences in the School of Journalism from the Autonomous University of
Barcelona. He has carried out the following assignments: from 1979-1984
pastoral ministry toward the marginalized in Barcellona; from 1984-1986, youth
ministry at the Salesian College in Asunción in Paraguay; from 1986-1992, as
provincial delegate for pastoral vocation work in Asunción; from 1991-1992, :
Director of the Salesian Bulletin of Asunción; from 1992-1994 he was a pastor
in Asunción; from 1994-2000 he was Provincial of the Salesian’s province in
Paraguay; from 2000-2002 he was the Director of the Community and ministered
pastorally and as a teacher at the College in Asunción; from 2002-2003 he was
Minister of the Paraguayan Missions; from 2003-2011, head of pastoral parish
and school ministry in the Professional Formation Center at Kénitra,
Morocco; from 2011-2014 he was provincial of the Salesian Province in Bolivia;
in 2014 he became Provincial of the Salesian Province of Mary Help of
Christians in Spain. On 29 December 2017, Pope Francis nominated him Archbishop
of Rabat, Morocco
10. Father Michael Czerny, sj – Undersecretary
of the Migrants and Refugees Section of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral
Human Development – was born in the formerCzechoslovakia in 1946 and
entered the Society of Jesus in 1963. In 1973 he was ordained a priest of the
Canadian Province of Jesuits and in 1978 obtained a doctorate in
Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Chicago. In 1979, he founded the
Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice and directed it until 1989 when he was
transferred in 1991 to San Salvador after the assassination of the Jesuits at
the Central American University where he became Vice Rector of the University
and Director of the Institute for Human Rights. From 1992-2002 he carried out
the role as Secretary for Social Justice at the General Curia of the Jesuits
and afterwards founded and directed the African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN), a
network sustained by the Jesuits in Africa committed to respond to the HIS/AIDS
epidemic there. Beginning in 2005 he taught at Hekima College at the Catholic
University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi, collaborating with the Episcopal
Conference of Kenya. In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI nominated him an expert for the
Second Synod of African Bishops. Since 2010 he has been a consultor for the
Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. and in December 2016, Pope Francis
nominated him Undersecretary of the Migrant and Refugees Section of the
Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. In October 2018 he was a
Member of the Synod of Bishops on Young People and in 2019 he became a special
secretary for the Synod on the Amazon.
11. Archbishop Michael Louis Fitzgerald – Former
Apostolic Nuncio of Egypt – was born in Walsall in 1937 and entered
the Society of the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) in 1950 and was
ordained a priest in 1961. In 1987 he was nominated secretary to what was then
the Secretariat for Non-Christians which became the Pontifical Council for
Interreligious Dialogue in 1988. In 1991 he was ordained Bishop and received
the titular see of Nepte. In 2002 he was nominated President of the Pontifical
Council for Interreligious Dialogue and was elevated to the rank of
Archbishoop. St John Paul II then nominated him as a Member of the Pontifical
Council for Promoting the Unity of Christians and in 2004 as a Member of the
Pontifical Council for Culture. Pope Benedict XVI nominated him as Apostolic
Nuncio of Egypt in 2006 where he remained until he resigned in 2012, having
reached the age limit.
12. Archbishop Sigitas Tamkevicius, sj –
Archbishop Emeritus of Kaunas – was born in 1938 in Gudonys in the region
of Lazdijai in the Ukraine and was ordained a priest in 1962. He then carried
out various assignments as parochial vicar of Alytus, Lazdijai, Kudirkos,
Naumiestis, Prieani, and Simmas. In 1968 he entered the Society of Jesus. He
was arrested in 1983 for anti-soviet propaganda and agitating the people and
spent 10 years in the prison work camps of Perm and Mordovia. After being
exiled to Siberia until his release in 1988, he was nominated Rector of the
Interdiocesan Seminary of Kaunas in 1990. He was consecrated auxiliary Bishop
of Kaunas in 1991 and became its Archbishop in 1996. From 1999-2002 and from
2005-2014 he served as the President of the Episcopal Conference of Lithuania,
and as its Vice President from 2002-2005. Having reached the age limit, Pope
Francis accepted his resignation as Archbishop in 2015.
13. Bishop Eugenio Dal Corso, psdp – Bishop
Emeritus of Benguela – was born in 1939. He decided to become a missionary
due to his studies at the Don Calabria Institute in Verona. After he was ordained
a priest in 1963, he was sent to Rome to complete his studies in Dogmatic
Theology. While studying, he carried out pastoral ministry in the parish of the
Madonna di Campagna in Verona and subsequently in Naples. In 1975 he began his
life as a missionary. Argentina was his first destination, in Laferrere,
a province of Buenos Aires where he remained for 11 years until his transfer to
Luanda in Angola where he dedicated himself to the weakest populations. In 1995
he was nominated as Coadjutor Bishop of Saurino and in 1997 became its Bishop.
On 12 February 2008 he was nominated Bishop of Benguela where he remained until
he resigned because of reaching the age limit.
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