Bagong mga Cardinal ng Iglesia ni Cristo hinirang sa Vatican ng Santo Papa

Hinirang ng Santo Papa Benito XVI ang mga 22 bagong mga Cardinal sa Basilika ng San Pedro sa Vatican City. Ang mga nahirang ay amg mga sumusunod (mula sa News.Va):

Archbishop Edwin Frederick O’Brien - Pro-Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem

Archbishop Thomas Christopher Collins of Toronto, Canada;

Archbishop Timothy Michael Dolan of New York, United States of America;

Archbishop of Ernakulam — Angamaly for Syro-Malabars, India;

Bishop John Tong Hon of Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China;

Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples;

Archbishop Manuel Monteiro de Castro, Major Penitentiary;

Archbishop Santos Abril y Castelló, Archpriest of the Papal Basilica of St Mary Major;

Archbishop Antonio Maria Vegliò, President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People;

Archbishop Giuseppe Bertello, President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State and President of the Governorate of the same State;

Archbishop Francesco Coccopalmerio, President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts;

Archbishop João Braz de Aviz, Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life;

Archbishop Domenico Calcagno, President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See;

Archbishop Giuseppe Versaldi, President of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See;

Archbishop Dominik Duka, O.P., of Prague, Czech Republic;

Archbishop Willem Jacobus Eijk of Utrecht, The Netherlands;

Archbishop Giuseppe Betori of Florence, Italy;

Archbishop Rainer Maria Woelki of Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany;

H.B. Lucian Mureşan, Major Archbishop of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia for Romanians, Romania;

Monsignor Julien Ries, Priest of the Diocese of Namur, Belgium, Professor emeritus of history and religion at the Catholic University of Leuven/Louvain;

Fr Prosper Grech, OSA, Lecturer emeritus at various universities in Rome and Consultor to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith;

Fr Karl Becker, SJ, Lecturer emeritus at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Consultor to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.