The Pope appointed 21 new cardinals. These are their names. Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio, archbishop of Lima; Vicente Bokalic Iglic, archbishop of Santiago del Estero, Argentina; Luis Gerardo Cabrera Herrera, archbishop of Guayaquil (Ecuador); Fernando Natalio Chomalí Garib, archbishop of Santiago de Chile; Tarcisius Isao Kikuchi, archbishop of Tokyo; Pablo Virgilio Siongco David, bishop of Kalookan (Philippines); Ladislav Német, archbishop of Belgrade, first cardinal of Serbia; Jaime Spengler, archbishop of Porto Alegre (Brazil); Ignace Bessi Dogbo, archbishop of Abidjan (Ivory Coast); Jean-Paul Vesco, archbishop of Algiers; Dominique Joseph Mathieu, archbishop of Tehran-Ispahan; Roberto Repole, archbishop of Turin; Baldassare Reina, vicar general for the diocese of Rome; Francis Leo, archbishop of Toronto; Rolandas Makrickas, coadjutor archpriest of the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore; Mykola Bycok, Melbourne eparch of the Ukrainians (Australia); Timothy Radcliffe, former Master General of the Order of Preachers, theologian; Fabio Baggio, undersecretary for the migrants and refugees section of the Dicastery for Integral Human Development; George Jacob Koovakad, organizer of papal journeys; Domenico Battaglia, archbishop of Naples; Angelo Acerbi, Prelate Emeritus of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Europe now has 115 cardinals, Asia 37, South America 32, Africa 29, North America 28, Central America 8, and Oceania 4. New countries joining the Sacred College are Algeria, Australia, Ecuador, Iran, and Serbia.
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