19 new cardinals… and two Popes

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A wonderful surprise: for the first time Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI attended the ceremony in which Pope Francis created 19 new cardinals. The 19 cardinals are:

– Archbishop Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State

– Archbishop Lorenzo Baldisseri, Secretary General of the Synod

- Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

– Archbishop Beniamino Stella, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy

– Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Gerard Nichols (Great Britain)

– Archbishop of Managua Leopoldo José Brenes Solórzano (Nicaragua)

– Archbishop of Québec Gérald Cyprien Lacroix (Canada)

– Archbishop of Abidjan Jean-Pierre Kutwa (Ivory Coast)

– Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro Orani João Tempesta, O.Cist. (Brazil)

– Archbishop of Perugia-Città della Pieve Gualtiero Bassetti (Italy)

– Archbishop of Buenos Aires Mario Aurelio Poli (Argentina)

– Archbishop of Seoul Andrew Yeom Soo jung (Korea)

– Archbishop of Santiago de Chile Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, S.D.B. (Chile)

– Archbishop of Ouagadougou Philippe Nakellentuba Ouédraogo (Burkina Faso)

– Archbishop of Cotabato Orlando B. Quevedo, O.M.I. (Philippines)

– Bishop of Les Cayes Chibly Langlois (Haiti)

Together with them, 3 retired archbishops, who are distinguished by their service to the Holy See and to the Church were also created cardinals:

- Archbishop Loris Francesco Capovilla, secretary to Pope John XXIII, who is 99 years old.

- Archbishop Fernando Sebastián Aguilar (Spain)

- Archbishop Emeritus of Castries Kelvin Edward Felix (Antilles).