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The College of Cardinals is divided into three orders, with formal precedence in the following sequence: [1]. Cardinal bishops (CB): the six cardinals who are assigned the titles of the seven suburbicarian dioceses in the vicinity of Rome by the pope, [a] plus a few other cardinals who have been exceptionally co-opted into the order, [9] [10] as well as patriarchs who head one of the Eastern ...
Cardinal-Deacon: Jean-Claude Cardinal Hollerich, S. J. Archbishop of Luxembourg Titular of San Giovanni Crisostomo al Monte Sacro Alto: 9 August 1958 66 years, 175 days: 9 October 2019 Pope Francis Cardinal-Priest Sigitas Cardinal Tamkevičius, S. J. Archbishop Emeritus of Kaunas Titular of Sant'Angela Merici: 7 November 1938 86 years, 85 days ...
The bishop in the five commonwealths and territories have different episcopal conferences: In Puerto Rico, the six bishops form their own episcopal conference, the Conferencia Episcopal Puertorriqueña. [2] [3] In the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and Guam, the bishops belong to the Episcopal Conference of the Pacific.
Coat of arms before becoming a cardinal (used 2015–2022) Robert Walter McElroy (born February 5, 1954) is an American Catholic prelate who was elevated to the cardinalate by Pope Francis in 2022 and was also appointed as Archbishop of Washington in 2025.
Pope Francis taps one of most outspoken and progressive-leaning U.S. Catholic leaders to Washington, D.C., ahead of Trump term, immigration battle.
The new cardinals also include Hong Kong Bishop Stephen Sau-yan Chow, 64, and the Vatican’s top official in the Middle East, Monsignor Pierbattista Pizzaballa, 58, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
At the time of the announcement, all six cardinal bishops of suburbicarian see titles, as well as two of the three cardinal patriarchs, were non-electors as they had reached the age of 80. [48] Pope Francis created another cardinal bishop in the same way on 1 May 2020, [49] [50] bringing the number of Latin Church cardinal bishops to eleven.
Timothy Michael Dolan (born February 6, 1950) is an American cardinal of the Catholic Church.He is the tenth and current archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York in the United States, having been appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009.