Pope Francis announced on Sunday that he will create 21 new cardinals, including the archbishops of Tehran, Tokyo, and Toronto, at a consistory on December 8.
The 87-year-old pope made the announcement from a window overlooking St. Peter’s Square after reciting the Angelus prayer on October 6.
This is the full list:
- Archbishop Frank Leo, metropolitan archbishop of Toronto (Canada)
- Archbishop Tarcisius Isao Kikuchi, SVD, metropolitan archbishop of Tokyo (Japan)
- Archbishop Dominique Joseph Mathieu, OFM Conv, archbishop of Tehran-Ispahan (Belgian missionary bishop in Iran)
- Bishop Mykola Bycok, CSsR, Eparch of Sts. Peter and Paul of Melbourne of the Ukrainians (Ukrainian bishop in Australia)
- Father Timothy Radcliffe, OP, theologian (United Kingdom)
- Father Fabio Baggio, CS, undersecretary for the Migrants and Refugees Section of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development (Italy)
- Monsignor George Jacob Koovakad, official of the Secretariat of State and organizer of papal trips (India)
- Bishop Baldassare Reina, vicar general of the diocese of Rome (Italy)
- Archbishop Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio, metropolitan archbishop of Lima (Peru)
- Bishop Paskalis Bruno Syukur, OFM, bishop of Bogor (Indonesia)
- Archbishop Vicente Bokalic Iglic, archbishop of Santiago del Estero (Argentina)
- Archbishop Luis Gerardo Cabrera Herrera, OFM, metropolitan archbishop of Guayaquil (Ecuador)
- Archbishop Fernando Natalio Chomali Garib, metropolitan archbishop of Santiago de Chile (Chile)
- Bishop Pablo Virgilio Siongco David, bishop of Kalookan (Philippines)
- Archbishop Laszlo Nemet, SVD, metropolitan archbishop of Belgrade (Serbia)
- Archbishop Jaime Spengler, OFM, metropolitan archbishop of Porto Alegre (Brazil)
- Archbishop Ignace Bessi Dogbo, metropolitan archbishop of Abidjian (Ivory Coast)
- Archbishop Jean-Paul Vesco, OP, metropolitan archbishop of Algiers (Algeria)
- Archbishop Roberto Repole, metropolitan archbishop of Turin (Italy)
- Archbishop Rolandas Makrickas, coadjutor archpriest of the Basilica of St. Mary Major (Lithuania)
One of the cardinals-elect is already over 80:
- Archbishop Angelo Acerbi, apostolic nuncio emeritus (Italy)
