New Cardinals

At the end of today's General Audience, on the Feast of the Chair of Peter, the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI announced a Consistory to be held March 24, 2006 in which new Cardinals will be created:

• Archbishop William 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, Archbishop of Caracas
• Archbishop Gaudencio Rosales, Archbishop of Manila
• Archbishop Jean-Pierre Ricard, Archbishop of Bordeaux
• Archbishop Antonio Canizares Lloveda, Archbishop of Toledo
• Archbishop Nicholas Cheong Jin-Suk, Archbishop of Seoul
• Archbishop Sean O'Malley, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Boston
• Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, Archbishop of Krakow
• Archbishop Carlo Caffara, Archbishop of Bologna
• Bishop Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, S.D.B., Bishop of Hong Kong
  

(The following are over 80 and would be ineligible to vote in a papal conclave)

• Archbishop Andrea Cordero Lanza de Montezemolo, Archpriest of the Basilica of St. Pauls outside the Walls
• Archbishop Peter Proeku Dery of Tamale, Archbishop emeritus of Tamale, Ghana
• Father Albert Vanhoye, S.J., former Rector of the Pontifical Biblical Institute and Secretary of the Pontifical Biblical Commission.