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United States Cardinals

William Wakefield Baum: Major Penitentiary
Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua: Archbishop of Philadelphia
John J. Carberry: Archbishop Emeritus of St. Louis
James A. Hickey: Archbishop of Washington D.C.
William H. Keeler: Archbishop of Baltimore
Bernard F. Law: Archbishop of Boston
Roger M. Mahony: Archbishop of Los Angeles
Adam Maida: Archbishop of Detroit
John J. O'Connor: Archbishop of New York
Edmund C. Szoka: President of Prefecture for Economic Affairs of the Holy See

Non-U.S. Cardinals

Agustoni, Gilberto: Prefect, Supreme Tribunal of Apostolic Signatura (Switzerland)
Angelini, Fiorenzo: President of Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers (Italy)
Aponte Martinez, Luis: Archbishop of San Juan (Puerto Rico)
Aramburu, Juan Carlos: Archbishop Emeritus of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Arinze, Francis: President of Council for Interreligious Dialogue
Arns, Paulo Evaristo, OFM: Archbishop of Sao Paulo (Brazil)

Bafile, Corrado: retired (Italy)
Ballestrero, Anastasio Alberto, OCD: Archbishop Emeritus of Turin (Italy)
Bertoli, Paolo: retired (Italy)
Biffi, Giacomo: Archbishop of Bologna (Italy)

Canestri, Giovanni: Archbishop Emeritus of Genoa (Italy)
Caprio, Giuseppe: retired (Italy)
Carles Gordo, Ricardo Maria: Archbishop of Barcelona (Spain)
Carter, Gerald Emmett: Archbishop Emeritus of Toronto (Canada)
Casaroli, Agostino: Sub-dean of the college of cardinals (Italy)
Casoria, Giuseppe: retired (Italy)
Cassidy, Edward I.: President of Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (Australia)
Castillo Lara, Rosalio José, SDB: President of Pontifical Commission for the State of Vatican City (Venezuela)
Cé, Marco: Patriarch of Venice (Italy)
Clancy, Edward Bede: Archbishop of Sydney (Australia)
Corripio Ahumada, Ernesto: Archbishop Emeritus of Mexico City (Mexico)

Daly, Cahal Brendan: Archbishop Emeritus of Armagh
Daneels, Godfried: Archbishop of Brussels and Military Ordinary of Belgium
Darmaatmadja, Julius Riyadi, SJ: Archbishop of Jakarta (Indonesia)
Deskur, Andrzej Maria: President Emeritus of Council for Social Communications (Poland)
Dezza, Paolo, SJ: retired (Italy)
do Nascimento, Alexandre: Archbishop of Luanda (Angola)

Echeverria Ruiz, Bernardino, OFM: Archbishop Emeritus of Guayaquil (Ecuador)
Etchegaray, Roger: President of Council for Justice and Peace (France)
Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, Frederic CICM: Archbishop of Kinshasa (Zaire)
Eyt, Pierre: Archbishop of Bordeaux (France)

Fagiolo, Vincenzo: President of the Disciplinary Commission of the Roman Curia (Italy)
Falcao, Jose Freire: Archbishop of Brasilia (Brazil)
Felici, Angelo: President of Pontifical Commission, Ecclesia Dei. (Italy)
Fresno Larrain, Juan Francisco: Archbishop Emeritus of Santiago (Chile)
Furno, Carlo: Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (Italy)

Gagnon, Edouard, PSS: President of Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses (Canada)
Gantin, Bernardin: Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops (Benin)
Giordano, Michele: Archbishop of Naples (Italy)
Glemp, Jozef: Archbishop of Warsaw (Poland)
Gong (Kung) Pin-mei, Ignatius: Bishop of Shanghai (China/resides in U.S.)
Gonzalez Martin, Marcelo: Archbishop Emeritus of Toledo (Spain)
Gouyon, Paul: Archbishop Emeritus of Rennes (France)
Grillmeier, Alois SJ: (German)
Gröer, Hans Hermann, OSB: Archbishop Emeritus of Vienna (Austria)
Gulbinowicz, Henryk Roman: Archbishop of Wroclaw (Poland)

Hume, George Basil, OSB: Archbishop of Westminster (UK)

Innocenti, Antonio: retired (Italy)

Javierre Ortas, Antonio Maria, SDB: retired (Spain)

Kim, Stephan Sou Hwan: Archbishop of Seoul (Korea)
Kitbunchu, Michael Michai: Archbishop of Bangkok (Thailand)
Koliqi, Mikel: (Albania)
König, Franz: Archbishop Emeritus of Vienna (Austria)
Korec, Jan Chryzostom, SJ: Bishop of Nitra (Slovakia)
Kuharic, Franjo: Archbishop of Zagreb (Croatia)

Laghi, Pio: Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education (Italy)
Lopez Rodriguez, Nicolas de Jesus: Archbishop of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)
Lopez Trujillo, Alfonso: President of the Pontifical Council on the Family (Colombia)
Lorscheider, Aloisio, OFM: Archbishop of Aparecida (Brazil)
Lourdusamy, D. Simon: retired (India)
Lubachivsky, Myroslav Ivan: Major Archbishop of Lviv of the Ukrainians
Lustiger, Jean-Marie: Archbishop of Paris (France)

Macharski, Franciszek: Archbishop of Cracow (Poland)
Margeot, Jean: Bishop Emeritus of Port Louis (Mauritius)
Martinez Somalo, Eduardo: Cardinal Carmerlengo of the College of Cardinals (Spain)
Martini, Carlo Maria, SJ: Archbishop of Milan (Italy)
Mayer, Paul Augustin, OSB: retired (Germany)
Meisner, Joachim: Archbishop of Cologne (Germany)

Neves, Lucas Moreira, OP: Archbishop of Sao Salvador da Bahia (Brazil)
Noè, Virgilio: Vicar General for Vatican City (Italy)

Obando Bravo, Miguel, SDB: Archbishop of Managua (Nicaragua)
Oddi, Silvio: retired (Italy)
Ortega y Alamino, Jaime: Archbishop of Havana (Cuba)
Otunga, Maurice Michael: Archbishop of Nairobi (Kenya)
Oviedo Cavado, Carlos, O de M: Archbishop of Santiago (Chile)

Padiyara, Anthony: Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly of Syro-Malabar Church (India)
Palazzini, Pietro: retired (Italy)
Pappalardo, Salvatore: Archbishop Emeritus of Palermo, Italy (Italy)
Paskai, Laszlo, OFM: Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest (Hungary)
Pham Dinh Tung, Paul Joseph: Archbishop of Hanoi (Vietnam)
Pimenta, Simon Ignatius: Archbishop of Mombai (India)
Piovanelli, Silvano: Archbishop of Florence (Italy)
Pironio, Eduardo: retired (Argentina)
Poggi, Lugi: Archivist and librarian of the Holy Roman Church (Italy)
Poupard, Paul: President of Pontifical Council for Culture (France)
Puljic, Vinko: Archbishop of Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Primatesta, Raul Francisco: Archbishop of Cordoba (Argentina)

Quarracino, Antonio: Archbishop of Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Ratzinger, Joseph: Prefect of Congregation for Doctrine of the Faith (Germany)
Razafindratandra, Armand Gaetan: Archbishop of Antananarivo (Madagascar)
Ribeiro, Antonio: Patriarch of Lisbon (Portugal)
Righi-Lambertini, Egano: retired (Italy)
Rossi, Opilio: retired (Italy)
Rugambwa, Laurean: Archbishop Emeritus of Dar-es-Salaam
Ruini, Camillo: Cardinal Vicar for the Diocese of Rome (Italy)

Sabattani, Aurelio: retired (Italy)
Saldarini, Giovanni: Archbishop of Turin (Italy)
Sales, Eugenio de Araujo: Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Sanchez, José T.: retired (Philippines)
Sandoval Iniguez, Juan: Archbishop of Guadalajara (Mexico)
Santos, Alexandre Josée Maria dos: Archbishop of Maputo (Mozambique)
Schotte, Jan Pieter, CICM: Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops (Belgium)
Schwery, Henri: Bishop Emeritus of Sion (Switzerland)
Sensi, Guiseppe Maria: retired (Italy)
Sfeir, Nasrallah Pierre: Maronite Patriarch of Antioch (Lebenon)
Shirayanagi, Peter Seiichi: Archbishop of Tokyo (Japan)
Silva Henriquez, Raul, SBD: Archbishop Emeritus of Santiago (Chile)
Silvestrini, Achille: Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches (Italy)
Simonis, Adrianus J: Archbishop of Utrecht (Netherlands)
Sin, Jamie L: Archbishop of Manila (Philippines)
Sladkevicius, Vincentas, MIC: Archbishop Emeritus of Kaunas (Lithuania)
Sodano, Angelo: Secretary of State (Italy)
Sterzinsky, Georg Maximilian: Archbishop of Berlin (Germany)
Stickler, Alfons, SDB: retired (Austria)
Suarez Rivera, Adolfo Antonio: Archbishop of Monterrey (Mexico)
Suquia Goicoechea, Angel: Archbishop Emeritus of Madrid (Spain)
Swiatek, Kazimierz: Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev, Belarus (Estonia)

Taofinu'u, Pio, SM: Archbishop of Samoa-Apia (Western Samoa)
Thiandoum, Hyacinthe: Archbishop of Dakar (Senegal)
Todea, Alexandru: Archbishop Emeritus of Fagaras and Alba Julia of the Romanians
Tomko, Jozef: Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. (Slovakia)
Tonini, Ersilio: Archbishop Emeritus of Ravenna-Cervia (Italy)
Tumi, Christian Wiyghan: Archbishop of Douala (Cameroon)
Turcotte, Jean-Claude: Archbishop of Montreal (Canada)
Tzadua, Paulos: Archbishop of Addis-Ababa (Ethiopia)

Ursi, Corrado: Archbishop Emeritus of Naples (Italy)

Vachon, Louis-Albert: Archbishop Emeritus of Quebec (Canada)
Vargas Alzamora, Augusto, SJ: Archbishop of Lima (Peru)
Vidal, Ricardo J: Archbishop of Cebu (Philippines)
Vlk, Miloslav: Archbishop of Prague (Czech Republic)

Wamala, Emmanuel: Archbishop of Kampala (Uganda)
Wetter, Friedrich: Archbishop of Munich and Freising (Germany)
Willebrands, Johannes: retired (Netherlands)
Williams, Thomas Stafford: Archbishop of Wellington (New Zealand)
Winning, Thomas Joseph: Archbishop of Glasgow (Scotland)
Wu Cheng-Chung, John-Baptist: Bishop of Hong Kong

Yago, Bernard: Archbishop Emeritus of Abidjan (Ivory Coast)

Zoungrana, Paul: Archbishop Emeritus of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)