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Pope names 37 new cardinals in consistory
Pope John Paul II named 37 cardinals in a February consistory, boosting the voting pool to 128 and moving toward a potential successor. The nominees include Archbishops from the United States, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, plus clerics from the Vatican hierarchy.
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Vatican City
Iap
John Paul II
St. Peter
Washington
Edward Egan
New York
Avery Dulles
Fordham University
Mr. Dulles
John Foster Dulles
U.S
Francois Xavier Nguyen van Thuan
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Jorge Mario Bergoglio
Westminster
England
Cormac Murphy-O’connor
Caracas
Venezuela
Ignacio Antonio Velasco Garcia
Lima
Peru
Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne
Lyon
France
Louis-Marie Bille
Dublin
Ireland
Desmond Conneil
Giovanni Battista Re
Germany
John Paul
P Walter Kasper
Pontifical Council
Bombay
India
Ivan Dias
Quito de Ecuador
Antonio Jose Gonzalez Zumarraga
Sao Sahai da Bahia
Brazil
Geraldo Majella Agnelo
Bogota
Colombia
Pedro
Rubiano Saenz
Claudio Hummes
Sao Paulo
Chile
Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa
Santiago
Honduras
Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga
Penis
Africa
Ivory Coast
Abidjan
Bernard
Europe
Jose da Cruz Rollay Po
Patriach
Lisbon
Port
Spain
Toledo
Arch
Francisco Alvarez Martinez
Soviet Union
Vilnius
Lithuania
Audrus Juozas Backis
Vatican
Merarchy
Italy
Syria
Vatican Radio
Monsignor
Roberto Tucci