Pope Benedict XVI named six
new cardinals yesterday
Wednesday October 24th, and
among them is a Nigerian Arch-
bishop, John Olorunfemi
Onaiyekan, who until his
promotion, was the Archbishop
of Abuja. Bishop Onaiyekan
becomes the third Nigerian
cardinal after Cardinal Francis
Arinze and Cardinal Olubumi
Okogie.
The other five newly appointed
cardinals are: Archbishop of
Bogota, Colombia, Ruben
Salazar Gomez; Archbishop of
Manila, Philippines, Luis Antonio
Tagle; Patriarch of Antioch of the
Maronites in Lebanon, Bechara
Boutros Rai; and the major
Archbishop of the Trivandrum of
the Siro-Malankaresi in India,
Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal.
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