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Below is this year’s list of recipients of the pallium, the woollen band of office denoting their being metropolitan archbishops. As always, the Holy Father will be handing the pallia out on the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, 29 June, although the ceremony is somewhat changed this year: to make the ceremony shorter, and, like the most recent consistory, to avoid any suggestion that it is a sacramental rite. Whereas the imposition of the pallia previously took place during a Eucharistic celebration, after the homily, it will now be moved to before the Mass. As the Holy See press office explains: “Indeed, the rites which take place during a Eucharistic celebration following the homily are normally Sacramental rites: Baptism, Confirmation, Ordination, Matrimony, Anointing of the Sick. The imposition of the pallium, on the other hand, is not Sacramental in nature”.
Africa
- Ignatius Chama, Kasama, Zambia
- Alfred Martins, Lagos, Nigeria
- Benedito Roberto C.S.Sp., Malanje, Angola
- Gabriel Yaw Anokye, Kumasi, Ghana
Asia
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Abp. D’Rozario
Jose Advincula, Capiz, Philippines
- Joseph Coutts, Karachi, Pakistan
- Patrick D’Rozario C.S.C., Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Thomas D’Souza, Calcutta, India
- John Du, Palo, Philippines
- John Moolachira, Guwahati, India
- Luis Tagle, Manila, Philippines
- Romulo Valles, Davao, Philippines
- Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, Seoul, Korea
Europe:
- Stanisław Budzik, Lublin, Poland
- Waclaw Depo, Czestochowa, Poland
- Arrigo Miglio, Cagliari, Italy
- Francesco Moraglia, Venice, Italy
- Filippo Santoro, Taranto, Italy
- Wiktor Skworc, Katowice, Poland
- Pascal Wintzer, Poitiers, France
- Rainer Cardinal Woelki, Berlin, Germany
North America
- Samuel Aquila, Denver, United States
- Jesus Cabrero Romero, San Luis Potosí, Mexico
- Charles Chaput O.F.M., Philadelphia, United States
- Luc Cyr, Sherbrooke, Canada
- Paul-André Durocher, Gatineau, Canada
- Joseph Harris C.S.Sp., Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
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Abp. Lépine
Christian Lépine, Montreal, Canada
- William Lori, Baltimore, United States
- Mario Alberto Molina Palma O.A.R., Los Altos, Quetzaltenango-Totonicapan, Guatemala
- Francisco Cardinal Robles Ortega, Guadalajara, Mexico
- William Skurla, Pittsburgh of the Byzantines, United States
- Valery Vienneau, Moncton, Canada
Oceania
- Mark Coleridge, Brisbane, Australia
- Timothy Costelloe S.D.B., Perth, Australia
- Francesco Panfilo S.D.B., Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
South America
- Esmeraldo Barreto de Farias, Porto Velho, Brazil
- Jacinto Furtado de Brito Sobrinho, Teresina, Brazil
- Airton dos Santos, Campinas, Brazil
- Ulises Gutiérrez Reyes O. de M., Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela
- Wilson Jonck S.C.I., Florianópolis, Brazil
- Paulo Mendes Peixoto, Uberaba, Brazil
- Salvador Piñeiro García-Calderón, Ayacucho o Huamanga, Peru
- Jose Rezende Dias, Niterói, Brazil
- Jaime Vieira Rocha, Natal, Brazil
- Alfredo Zecca, Tucuman, Argentina
All but two of the archbishops above will be at the ceremony on Rome this Friday. Archbishops Yaw Anokye and Vienneau will receive their pallia at their own cathedrals.
With his new title, Cardinal Eijk also got the right to change his coat of arms. In the past five years it has undergone several gradual changes, but this will very likely be its final form:
The red galero is the traditional cardinal’s hat (bishops feature a green galero in the coat of arms), and the fifteen red tassels also show the bearer’s rank. All cardinals’ coats of arms feature these elements. The golden staff behind the shield shows that Cardinal Eijk is an archbishop, while the pallium in top of the shield is indicative of his being a metropolitan. The shield itself, then, is personal. The silver cross of red comes from the coat of arms of the city of Utrecht (when he was bishop of Groningen-Leeuwarden, Cardinal Eijk’s shield was a silver cross on green). The green heart shield shows a staff with a snake around it, indicating the cardinal’s medical profession. The motto underneath the shield, Noli recusare laborem, meaning “Do not refuse the work”, has been the cardinal’s since his appointment as bishop of Groningen in 1999.
Which is also, of course, the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, the rock and the apostle to the gentiles, in many ways the foundations of the Church. And also, it is the day upon which Pope Benedict XVI celebrates 60 years of priesthood.
As every year, the metropolitan archbishops, standing firmly in the line of the aforementioned saints and in union with the Holy Father, today receive their pallia. In the words of the pope, from today’s homily:
“What does this mean? It may remind us in the first instance of Christ’s easy yoke that is laid upon us (cf. Mt 11:29f.). Christ’s yoke is identical with his friendship. It is a yoke of friendship and therefore “a sweet yoke”, but as such it is also a demanding yoke, one that forms us. It is the yoke of his will, which is a will of truth and love. For us, then, it is first and foremost the yoke of leading others to friendship with Christ and being available to others, caring for them as shepherds. This brings us to a further meaning of the pallium: it is woven from the wool of lambs blessed on the feast of Saint Agnes. Thus it reminds us of the Shepherd who himself became a lamb, out of love for us. It reminds us of Christ, who set out through the mountains and the deserts, in which his lamb, humanity, had strayed. It reminds us of him who took the lamb – humanity – me – upon his shoulders, in order to carry me home. It thus reminds us that we too, as shepherds in his service, are to carry others with us, taking them as it were upon our shoulders and bringing them to Christ. It reminds us that we are called to be shepherds of his flock, which always remains his and does not become ours. Finally the pallium also means quite concretely the communion of the shepherds of the Church with Peter and with his successors – it means that we must be shepherds for unity and in unity, and that it is only in the unity represented by Peter that we truly lead people to Christ.”
The harvest is quite large today, with 49 new metropolitan bishops appointed since last year’s ceremony. A significant number comes from traditionally Catholic countires and areas, such as South-Anmerica, the Philippines, but also various sub-Saharan countries, North-America, and a few nations in Europe and Asia.
Archbishop Lacroix of Québec receives his pallium from the Holy Father
Below follows the list of new metropolitan archbishops. The vast majority of these men were specifically apointed to archbishops, but a number became so because their dioceses were elevated to archdioceses. Recently, this happened with two dioceses in Angola – Malanje and Saurimo – and three in Brazil – Passo Funda, Pelotas and Santa Maria.
Archbishop Augustine Obiora Akubeze, Benin City
Archbishop Thumma Bala, Hyderabad
Archbishop John Barwa, Cuttack-Bhubaneswar
Archbishop Jacinto Bergmann, Pelotas
Archbishop Vincenzo Bertolone, Catanzaro-Squillace
Archbishop Pedro Brito Guimarães, Palmas
Archbishop Pierre-Marie Joseph Carré, Montpellier
Archbishop Thaddeus Cho Hwan-kil, Daegu
Archbishop Fernando Natalio Chomalí Garib, Concepción
Archbishop Paul Stagg Coakley, Oklahoma City
Archbishop Sérgio da Rocha, Brasília
Archbishop Charles Henry Dufour, Kingston in Jamaica
Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, Santiago de Chile
Archbishop Antoine Ganyé, Cotonou
Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller, San Antonio
Archbishop José Horacio Gómez, Los Angeles
Archbishop José Manuel Imbamba, Saurimo
Archbishop Gérald Cyprien Lacroix, Québec
Archbishop Dimas Lara Barbosa, Campo Grande
Archbishop Jairo Jaramillo Monsalve, Barranquila
Archbishop Darío de Jesús Monsalve Mejía , Cali
Archbishop Pascal N’Koué, Parakou
Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia, Turin
Archbishop Paul Yembuado Ouédraogo, Bobo-Dioulasso
Archbishop Jose Serofia Palma, Cebu
Archbishop Luis María Pérez de Onraita Aguirre, Malanje
Archbishop Guire Poulard, Port-au-Prince
Archbishop Juan Alberto Puiggari, Paraná
Archbishop Johannes Maria Trilaksyanta Pujasumarta, Semarang
Archbishop Murilo Sebastião Ramos Krieger, São Salvador de Bahia
Archbishop Gonzalo Restrepo Restrepo, Manizales
Archbishop Hélio Adelar Rubert, Santa Maria
Archbishop Juda Thadaeus Ruwa’ichi, Mwanza
Archbishop Rémi Joseph Gustave Sainte-Marie, Lilongwe
Archbishop Jesús Rubén Salazar Gómez, Bogotá
Archbishop James Peter Sartain, Seattle
Archbishop Pedro Ercílio Simon, Passo Fundo
Archbishop William Slattery, Pretoria
Archbishop George Stack, Cardiff
Archbishop Zbignev Stankevics, Riga
Archbishop Fausto Gabriel Trávez Trávez, Quito
Archbishop Marjan Turnšek, Maribor
Archbishop Sergio Lasam Utleg, Tuguegarao
Archbishop Oscar Julio Vian Morales, Guatemala
Archbishop Lewis Zeigler, Monrovia
Five of these men, namely archbishops Barwa, N’Koue, Poulard, Pujasumarta and Zeigler, were unable to be in Rome for the ceremony. They will receive their pallia at a later date.
Photo credit: REUTERS/Tony Gentile
The papal pallium, in the design introduced in 2008
On 28 June, the feast day of Saints Peter and Paul, 38 metropolitan archbishops will receive the pallium from Pope Benedict XVI. The 38 are archbishops which have been appointed in the past year, and the pallium is the symbol of their jurisdiction as bestowed upon them by the pope. It is therefore also a sign of the bond between the archbishops and Rome, and thus between the Church on the local level and the worldwide level.
A pallium bestowed signifies the pastoral power of an archbishop in an archdiocese and Church province, and is tied to that jurisdiction. If an archbishop is installed in another archdiocese (as happened in the past year to Archbishop Peter Smith, who moved from Cardiff to Southwark), he will receive a new pallium.
A metropolitan archbishop has supervisory rights in the so-called suffragan dioceses outside his own archdiocese. For example, in the Netherlands, Utrecht is the archdiocese and the other dioceses are are suffragans. Archbishop Wim Eijk of Utrecht can, for example, intervene in legal matters in the other Dutch dioceses
The Vatican Information Service has the complete list new metropolitans:
- Archbishop Luis Gerardo Herrera O.F.M. of Cuenca, Ecuador
- Archbishop Alex Thomas Kaliyanil S.V.D. of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
- Archbishop Gerard Tlali Lerotholi O.M.I. of Maseru, Lesotho
- Archbishop Antonio Fernando Saburido O.S.B. of Olinda and Recife, Brazil
- Archbishop Albert Legatt of Saint-Boniface, Canada
- Archbishop Gualtiero Bassetti of Perugia – Citta della Pieve, Italy
- Archbishop Andrea Bruno Mazzocato of Udine, Italy
Archbishop Mazzocato
- Archbishop Gabriel Mblinghi C.S.Sp. of Lubango, Angola
- Archbishop Socrates B. Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan, Philippines
- Archbishop Constancio Miranda Weckmann of Chihuahua, Mexico
- Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham, England
- Archbishop Juan Jose Asenjo Pelegrina of Seville, Spain.
- Archbishop Jerome Edward Lisecki of Milwaukee, U.S.A
- Archbishop Samuel Kleda of Douala, Cameroon
Archbishop Kleda
- Archbishop Jesus Sanz Montes O.F.M. of Oviedo, Spain
- Archbishop Anton Stres C.M. of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Archbishop Joseph Atanga S.J. of Bertoua, Cameroon
- Archbishop Stephen Brislin of Cape Town, South Africa
- Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr of Cincinnati, U.S.A
- Archbishop Alberto Taveira Correa of Belem do Para, Brazil
- Archbishop Andre-Mutien [sic] Leonard of Mechelen-Brussels, Belgium
Archbishop Léonard
- Archbishop Antonio Lanfranchi of Modena – Nonantola, Italy
- Archbishop Dominik Duka O.P. of Prague, Czech Republic
- Archbishop Ricardo Antonio Tobon Restrepo of Medellin, Colombia
- Archbishop Jose Domingo Ulloa Mendieta O.S.A. of Panama, Panama
- Archbishop Francis Kallarakal of Verapoly, India
- Archbishop Desire Tsarahazana of Toamasina, Madagascar
- Archbishop Ricardo Blazquez Perez of Valladolid, Spain
Archbishop Ricardo Blazquez Perez
- Archbishop Hyginus Kim Hee-joong of Kwangju, Korea
- Archbishop Luis Madrid Merlano of Nueva Pamplona, Colombia
- Archbishop Thomas Gerard Wenski of Miami, U.S.A
- Archbishop Peter Smith of Southwark, England
- Archbishop Jozef Kowalczyk of Gniezno, Poland
- Archbishop Pierre Nguyen Van Nhon of Hanoi, Vietnam
Archbishop Nguyen Van Nhon
- Archbishop Matthias Kobena Nketsiah of Cape Coast, Ghana
- Archbishop Bernard Bober of Kosice, Slovakia
- Archbishop Carlos Garfias Merlos of Acapulco, Mexico
- Archbishop Luigi Moretti of Salerno – Campagna – Acerno, Italy
