• Pope Francis at the end of his Angelus on Sunday announced the creation of 17 new Cardinals. A consistory will be held on the 19 of November, the eve of the closing of the Jubilee of Mercy.

    13 of the new Cardinals will be under 80 years and will be eligible to vote in a conclave.

    The Holy Father said that those chosen come from five continents. They include three American Archbishops and Archbishops from Mauritius and Bangladesh.

     

    Below find the list of new Cardinals

    Archbishop Mario Zenari, Italy

    Archbishop Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Central African Republic

    Archbishop Carlos Osoro Sierra, Spain

    Archbishop Sérgio da Rocha, Brazil

    Archbishop Blase J. Cupich, U.S.A. 

    Archbishop Patrick D’Rozario, Bangladesh

    Archbishop Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo, Venezuela

    Archbishop Jozef De Kesel, Belgium

    Archbishop Maurice Piat, Mauritius

    Archbishop Kevin Joseph Farrell, U.S.A.

    Archbishop Carlos Aguiar Retes, Mexico

    Archbishop John Ribat, Papua Nuova Guinea

    Archbishop Mons. Joseph William Tobin U.S.A.

    Archbishop Anthony Soter Fernandez, Archbishop Emeritus of Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

    Archbishop Renato Corti, Archbishop Emeritus of Novara Italy

    Archbishop Sebastian Koto Khoarai, Bishop Emeritus of Mohale’s Hoek Lesotho

    Father Ernest Simoni, presbytery of the Archdiocese of Shkodrë-Pult, Scutari – Albania.

    Source: Vatican Radio