VATICAN - Pope Benedict XVI announces his first Consistory for the creation of 15 new Cardinals

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Vatican City (Fides Service) - At the end of the Audience this morning, on the Feast of the Chair of Peter, Pope Benedict XVI announced that on March 24 he will hold a Consistory for the creation of 15 new Cardinals. “This announcement comes opportunely on the feast of the Cathedra of Peter - the Holy Father said -, because it is the duty of the Cardinals to support and assist the Successor of Peter in the apostolic task at the service of the Church entrusted to him”. The Pope said that the “Cardinals around the Pope are a sort of Senate to whom he assigns duties connected with his ministry ‘principle and perpetual and visible foundation of unity in faith and communion’”. With the creation of the new cardinals Pope Benedict XVI will bring the number of cardinal electors to 120, the number set by Pope Paul VI.
Here are the names of the new Cardinals:
Archbishop William Joseph Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Archbishop Franc Rode C.M., prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
Archbishop Agostino Vallini, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura.
Archbishop Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino of Caracas, Venezuela.
Archbishop Gaudencio B. Rosales of Manila, Philippines.
Archbishop Jean-Pierre Ricard of Bordeaux, France.
Archbishop Antonio Canizares Llovera of Toledo, Spain.
Archbishop Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk of Seoul, Korea.
Archbishop Sean Patrick O'Malley O.F.M. Cap., of Boston, U.S.A.
Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow, Poland.
Archbishop Carlo Caffarra of Bologna, Italy.
Bishop Joseph Zen Ze-kiun S.D.B. of Hong Kong, China
The Pope then announced that he had also decided to elevate to the dignity of cardinal "three prelates over the age of 80, in consideration of the service they have rendered to the Church with exemplary faithfulness and admirable dedication." They are: - Archbishop Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, archpriest of the Basilica of St. Paul's Outside-the-Walls.
Archbishop Peter Poreku Dery, emeritus of Tamale, Ghana.
Fr. Albert Vanhoye S.J., formerly rector of the Pontifical Biblical Institute and secretary of the Pontifical Biblical Commission.
The Holy Father also announced that on 23 March the day before the Consistory he will hold a meeting of reflection and prayer with the college of Cardinals and that on March 25th solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord he will preside a solemn Concelebration of Mass with all the cardinals. (S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 22/2/2006, righe 36, parole 411)