33 Archbishops to Receive Pallium at Vatican

VATICAN CITY, JUNE 28, 2005 (Zenit.org).- During the Mass of Wednesday's solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, Benedict XVI will place the pallium on 33 metropolitan archbishops named over the past year.

The pallium, a white woolen band, embroidered with six black crosses and worn around the neck, recalls the figure of the Good Shepherd who carries a lamb on his shoulders.

It symbolizes, in part, the Pope's concession of authority and communion to heads of major local Churches.

The archbishops scheduled to receive the pallium are:

-- Cardinal Angelo Sodano, new dean of the College of Cardinals.
-- Jaume Pujol Balcells, of Tarragona, Spain.
-- Bernard Blasius Moras, of Bangalore, India.
-- Bruno Forte, of Chieti-Vasto, Italy.

-- José Octavio Ruiz Arenas, of Villavicencio, Colombia.
-- Santiago García Aracil, of Merida-Badajoz, Spain.
-- Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimeno, of Huancayo, Peru.
-- Paolo Mario Virgilio Atzei, of Sassari, Italy.

-- Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda, of Windhoek, Namibia.
-- Anuar Battisti, of Maringa, Brazil.
-- Ruggero Franceschini, of Izmir, Turkey.
-- Orani João Tempesta, of Belem do Para, Brazil.

-- Pablo Lizama Riquelme, of Antofagasta, Chile.
-- Wilton Gregory, of Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
-- Salvatore Nunnari, of Cosenza-Bisignano, Italy.
-- José Horacio Gómez, of San Antonio, Texas.

-- Joseph Fiorenza, of Galveston-Houston, Texas.
-- Joseph Naumann, of Kansas City, Kansas.
-- Rrok Kola Mirdita, of Tirana-Durres, Albania.
-- André Vingt-Trois, of Paris.

-- Ernesto Antolin Salgano, of Nueva Segovia, Philippines.
-- Joseph Ngô Quang Kiêt, of Hanoi, Vietnam.
-- Marcel Honorat Léon Agboton, of Cotonou, Benin.
-- John Atcherley Dew, of Wellington, New Zealand.

-- Gabriel Charles Palmier-Buckle, of Accra, Ghana.
-- Daniel Bohan, of Regina, Saskatchewan.
-- Malayappan Chinnappa, of Madras and Mylapore, India.
-- Boniface Lele, of Mombassa, Kenya.

-- Leopoldo José Brenes Solórzano, of Managua, Nicaragua.
-- Manuel Ureña Pastor, of Saragossa, Spain.
-- Eduardo Benes de Sales Rodriguez, Archbishop of Sorocaba, Brazil.
-- Stanislaw Dziwisz, of Krakow, Poland.
-- Bernard Nicolas Aubertin, of Tours, France.

The Holy See announced that the pallium will be given to Alojzij Uran, archbishop of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in his own see.