Holy Father Francis: titles or Deaconries assigned to each of the new Cardinals

11 September, 2026

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Leo XIV , Vatican

27 August, 2022

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Holy Father Francis: titles or Deaconries assigned to each of the new Cardinals

Information note from the Office for Liturgical Celebrations

Visit of the new Cardinals to Benedict XVI © Vatican Media

Ordinary Public Consistory for the creation of new Cardinals: assignment of titles and deaconries to new Cardinals

We publish below the list of Titles or Deaconries assigned by the Holy Father Francis to each of the new Cardinals at the moment of creation in this afternoon’s Ordinary Public Consistory:

CARDINAL TITLE / DIAKONIA

Card. Arthur Roche Diaconia St. Saba
Card. Lazarus You Heung-sik Diaconia Jesus Good Shepherd in Montagnola
Card. Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, L.C. Diaconia S. Maria della Mercede and S. Adriano in Villa Albani
Card. Jean-Marc Aveline Title S. Maria ai Monti
Card. Peter Ebere Okpaleke Title Ss. Martyrs of Uganda in Poggio Ameno
Card. Leonardo Ulrich Steiner, O.F.M. Title S. Leonardo da Porto Maurizio in Acilia
Card. Filipe Neri António Sebastião do Rosário Ferrão Title S. Maria in Via
Card. Robert Walter McElroy Title S. Frumenzio ai Prati Fiscali
Card. Virgilio do Carmo da Silva, S.D.B. Title S. Alberto Magno
Card. Oscar Cantoni Title St. Maria “Regina Pacis” in Monte Verde
Card. Anthony Poola Title Ss. Protomartyrs in Via Aurelia Antica
Card. Paulo Cezar Costa Title Ss. Boniface and Alexis
Card. Richard Kuuia Baawobr, M. Afr. Title Ss. Mary Immaculate of Lourdes in Boccea
Card. William Seng Chye Goh Title S. Maria “Regina Pacis” in Ostia mare
Card. Adalberto Martínez Flores Title S. Giovanni a Porta Latina
Card. Giorgio Marengo, I.M.C. Title S. Giuda Taddeo Apostolo
Card. Jorge Enrique Jiménez Carvajal, C.I.M. Title S. Dorotea
Card. Arrigo Miglio Title S. Clemente
Card. Gianfranco Ghirlanda, S.I. Diaconía Santíssimo Nombre de Jesús
Card. Fortunato Frezza Deaconry of St. Mary in Via Lata

Ordinary Public Consistory for the voting of certain Causes of Canonisation

In addition, following the Creation of the Cardinals, the Holy Father Francis presided over the Ordinary Public Consistory for the Canonisation of the Blesseds

– Giovanni Battista Scalabrini, Bishop of Piacenza, founder of the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles and of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo;

– Artemide Zatti, professed layman of the Salesian Society of St. John Bosco (Salesians).

During the Consistory, the Pope decreed that the Blessed be inscribed in the Roll of Saints on Sunday 9 October 2022.

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