Pope Francis names 21 new cardinals, including Vatican's representative to US

ope Francis on July 9 named 21 new cardinals, including the Vatican's minister to the U.S., Ecclesiastical overseer Christophe Pierre; American-conceived Diocese supervisor Robert Prevost, who administers the arrangements of Catholic priests around the world; and the new top of the Vatican's doctrinal office, Ecclesiastical overseer Victor Manuel Fernández.

The pope made the declaration toward the finish of his week after week Sunday Angelus supplication from a window in the Missional Castle sitting above St. Peter's Square. Francis said he would introduce the new cardinals during a consistory at the Vatican on Sept. 30, saying these new cardinals address the comprehensiveness of the worldwide church and the "indistinguishable connection" between the pope and wards all over the planet.

Of the 21 new cardinals, 18 are younger than 80 and would be qualified to cast a ballot in an ecclesiastical conference. As of Sept. 30, with the new augmentations, the absolute number of qualified cardinal balloters will be 137.

Among the new cardinal-assigns are three Vatican authorities: Prevost, Fernández and Ecclesiastical overseer Claudio Gugerotti, 67, an Italian diocese supervisor who in Nov. 22 was named as consul of the Vatican's Dicastery for the Eastern Holy places.

Prevost, 67, is a Chicago-conceived Augustinian, who Francis selected in January to head the compelling Vatican office liable for suggesting clerics the pope name Catholic diocesans. Prevost was beforehand a cleric in Chiclayo, Peru, where he functioned as an evangelist for quite a long time.

The rise of Fernández, 60, comes a little more than seven days after the pope reported he had tapped that prelate, a long-lasting philosophical counsel and individual Argentine ecclesiastical overseer, to lead the Vatican's Dicastery for the Principle of Confidence. In a letter going with Fernandez's arrangement to the doctrinal office, Francis requested that the diocese supervisor steer the dicastery toward another path set apart by the advancement of methods of proselytizing and doing philosophy, as opposed to controlling scholars. The arrangement has previously sent shockwaves through moderate quarters in the Catholic Church.

Pierre, 77, initially from France, is a long-term Vatican representative who has served in Mexico, Uganda and Haiti. In 2016, Francis designated Pierre as his delegate to the US, a post the ecclesiastical overseer keeps on serving in notwithstanding having arrived at the conventional retirement time of diocesans of 75. In his job, Pierre is liable for recognizing and checking possible diocesans for the U.S. church.

He succeeded the now-shamed previous nuncio to the U.S., Ecclesiastical overseer Carlo Maria Viganò, a Q-Anon intrigue scholar who has recently required the pope's renunciation. Pierre has been a steadfast safeguard of Francis in the U.S., where the progressive system has frequently been hesitant to embrace the pope's peaceful needs.

In a concise call with Pierre, he told NCR he was "bewildered and thankful" by the pope's choice to name him a cardinal.

Prelates from 10 sees all over the planet will likewise get the cardinals' red cap from Francis, alongside an assistant priest, two Vatican ambassadors and the top of the Salesian request.

Among the prominent new cardinal-assigns are Hong Kong Cleric Stephen Chow, 63, who is a Jesuit and has as of late attempted to connect splits among China and Hong Kong Catholics; Juba, South Sudan Diocese supervisor Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla, 53, who facilitated Francis in his visit to South Sudan in February; and Ecclesiastical overseer Pierbattista Pizzaballa, 58, who is the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

The full rundown of new cardinal voters:

Ecclesiastical overseer Robert Prevost, consul of the Dicastery for Ministers;

Ecclesiastical overseer Claudio Gugerotti; consul of the Dicastery for the Eastern Houses of worship;

Ecclesiastical overseer Víctor Fernández; consul of the Dicastery for the Precept of the Confidence;

Ecclesiastical overseer Emil Tscherrig, resigned missional nuncio

Ecclesiastical overseer Christophe Pierre, missional nuncio to the US;

Diocese supervisor Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem;

Ecclesiastical overseer Stephen Brislin, Diocese supervisor of Cape Town, South Africa

Ecclesiastical overseer Ángel Sixto, Diocese supervisor of Córdoba, Argentina;

Ecclesiastical overseer Luis José Rueda Aparicio of Bogotá, Colombia;

Ecclesiastical overseer Grzegorz Ryś, Diocese supervisor of Łódź, Poland;

Ecclesiastical overseer Stephen Ameyu Martin Mulla, Diocese supervisor of Juba, South Sudan;

Ecclesiastical overseer José Cobo Cano, Diocese supervisor of Madrid;

Ecclesiastical overseer Protase Rugambwa, coadjutor Diocese supervisor of Tabora, Tanzania;

Cleric Sebastian Francis of Penang, Malaysia;

Cleric Stephen Chow, Priest of Hong Kong;

Cleric François-Xavier Bustillo, priest of Ajaccio, France;

Cleric Américo Manuel Alves Aguiar, assistant minister of Lisbon, Portugal;

Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime, Unrivaled General of the Salesians of Wear Bosco.

Notwithstanding the new cardinal voters, Francis likewise named three cardinals beyond 80 years old, who might be ineligible to partake in an ecclesiastical meeting. Those are: Italian Ecclesiastical overseer Agostino Marchetto, a resigned missional nuncio and student of history of the Second Vatican Committee; resigned Cumaná, Venezuela Diocese supervisor Diego Rafael Padrón Sánchez; and Capuchin Fr. Luis Pascual, questioner of the Altar of Our Woman of Pompeii in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The formation of 18 new cardinal voters by the 86-year-old Francis will put the complete number of cardinal balloters well over the restriction of 120 set by Pope Paul VI in 1975. The two Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI additionally surpassed that number at different focuses during their papacies.

The September service to make new cardinals, being hung just before the pope's exceptionally expected Assembly of Diocesans in October, will be Francis' 10th consistory for the production of new cardinals since his political decision as pontiff in Walk 2013. He last made new cardinals in August 2022.