33 Archbishops to Receive Pallium at Vatican On Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul

Zenit News Agency ^ | June 28, 2005

[NYer]

VATICAN CITY, JUNE 28, 2005 (Zenit.org).- During the Mass of Wednesday's solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, Benedict XVI will place the pallium on 33 metropolitan archbishops named over the past year.

The pallium, a white woolen band, embroidered with six black crosses and worn around the neck, recalls the figure of the Good Shepherd who carries a lamb on his shoulders.

It symbolizes, in part, the Pope's concession of authority and communion to heads of major local Churches.

The archbishops scheduled to receive the pallium are:

-- Cardinal Angelo Sodano, new dean of the College of Cardinals.
-- Jaume Pujol Balcells, of Tarragona, Spain.
-- Bernard Blasius Moras, of Bangalore, India.
-- Bruno Forte, of Chieti-Vasto, Italy.

-- José Octavio Ruiz Arenas, of Villavicencio, Colombia.
-- Santiago García Aracil, of Merida-Badajoz, Spain.
-- Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimeno, of Huancayo, Peru.
-- Paolo Mario Virgilio Atzei, of Sassari, Italy.

-- Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda, of Windhoek, Namibia.
-- Anuar Battisti, of Maringa, Brazil.
-- Ruggero Franceschini, of Izmir, Turkey.
-- Orani João Tempesta, of Belem do Para, Brazil.

-- Pablo Lizama Riquelme, of Antofagasta, Chile.
-- Wilton Gregory, of Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
-- Salvatore Nunnari, of Cosenza-Bisignano, Italy.
-- José Horacio Gómez, of San Antonio, Texas.

-- Joseph Fiorenza, of Galveston-Houston, Texas.
-- Joseph Naumann, of Kansas City, Kansas.
-- Rrok Kola Mirdita, of Tirana-Durres, Albania.
-- André Vingt-Trois, of Paris.

-- Ernesto Antolin Salgano, of Nueva Segovia, Philippines.
-- Joseph Ngô Quang Kiêt, of Hanoi, Vietnam.
-- Marcel Honorat Léon Agboton, of Cotonou, Benin.
-- John Atcherley Dew, of Wellington, New Zealand.

-- Gabriel Charles Palmier-Buckle, of Accra, Ghana.
-- Daniel Bohan, of Regina, Saskatchewan.
-- Malayappan Chinnappa, of Madras and Mylapore, India.
-- Boniface Lele, of Mombassa, Kenya.

-- Leopoldo José Brenes Solórzano, of Managua, Nicaragua.
-- Manuel Ureña Pastor, of Saragossa, Spain.
-- Eduardo Benes de Sales Rodriguez, Archbishop of Sorocaba, Brazil.
-- Stanislaw Dziwisz, of Krakow, Poland.
-- Bernard Nicolas Aubertin, of Tours, France.

The Holy See announced that the pallium will be given to Alojzij Uran, archbishop of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in his own see.

[NYer]

From Wikopedia ...

The Pallium or Pall (derived, so far as the name is concerned, from the Roman pallium or palla, a woollen cloak) is an ecclesiastical vestment in the Roman Catholic Church, originally peculiar to the Pope, but for many centuries past bestowed by him on metropolitans and primates as a symbol of the jurisdiction delegated to them by the Holy See.

The pallium, in its present form, is a narrow band, "three fingers broad," woven of white lamb's wool, with a loop in the centre resting on the shoulders over the chasuble, and two dependent lappets, before and behind; so that when seen from front or back the ornament resembles the letter Y. It is decorated with six black crosses, one on each tail and four on the loop, is doubled on the left shoulder, and is garnished, back and front, with three jewelled gold pins. The two latter characteristics seem to be survivals of the time when the Roman pallium was a simple scarf doubled and pinned on the left shoulder.

The Pallium of HH John Paul II

The Roman pallium is actually a vestigial omophorion. The omophorion is a wide band of cloth, much larger than the modern pallium, worn by all Eastern Orthodox bishops and Eastern Catholic bishops of the Byzantine Rite. The theory that explains its origin in connection with the figure of the Good Shepherd carrying the lamb on his shoulders, so common in early Christian art, is obviously an explanation a posteriori. The ceremonial connected with the preparation of the pallium and its bestowal upon the Pope at his coronation, however, suggests some such symbolism. The lambs whose wool is destined for the making of the pallia are solemnly presented at the altar by the nuns of the convent of Saint Agnes.

For his formal inauguration Pope Benedict XVI reverted to an earlier form of the pallium practically identical to the ancient omophorion. It is wider than the standard pallium although not as wide as the modern omophorion, made of wool with black silk ends, and decorated with five red crosses, three of which are pierced with pins.

Presently, only the Pope and metropolitan archbishops wear the pallium, and a metropolitan has to receive the pallium before exercising his office in his ecclesiastical province, even if he was previously metropolitan elsewhere. Non-metropolitan archbishops do not wear the pallium unless they have special permission.

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It should be interesting to see if Pope Benedict XVI has chosen the same pallium that he wears.

[NYer]

Wilton Gregory, of Atlanta, Georgia, U.S

Bishop Gregory on his knees before Pope Benedict XVI is a Kodak moment. Let's keep them both in our prayers.

[Onelifetogive]

This goes great in the "News/Activism" Forum.....there is no hint of "Religious" content...

</sarcasm*>

[dsc]

Lord forgive me, I am *so* tired of being disappointed.

So, the Holy Father is making a Bernadin protege an archbishop, is he?

Business as usual. I guess we should just give in, go down to the seminary, and have a homosexual orgy with the future priests.

If the Church is ever to be cleansed, it will be laymen wielding axe handles who do it.

[GipperGal]

Which one of them is a Bernadin protege?

[dsc]

Gregory.

[GipperGal]

what did he do?

[TaxachusettsMan]

Thank you so much for taking the time to post this - and with the drawing, photographs, and links!

I've emailed this site to a number of my Protestant friends, students, etc. who always have questions about these things.

I know it takes a significant amount of time to do something like this.

Thank you!

Live feed from Vatican TV (maybe on EWTN?) for those of us who will be up all night in the heat and humidity anyhow! :-)

www.vatican.va

[AnAmericanMother]

Bishop Gregory on his knees before Pope Benedict XVI is a Kodak moment. Let's keep them both in our prayers.

Amen. Pray hard.

[AnAmericanMother]

I am cautiously optimistic. Just because somebody came up under Bernadin doesn't necessarily infect them with the taint. In Gregory's case, it might have been sheer political correctness that caused his promotion. I am much more worried about his stint with the USCCB. But he seems like enough of a political animal that he knows he had better straighten up and fly right under Benedict XVI (and in a very conservative and orthodox diocese like Atlanta.)

[AnAmericanMother]

BTW, let me fill you in on the fallout from the newsletter article.

You may recall that the diocesan newsletter's front page article on the trend in the diocese towards traditional music generated a really ugly letter from a "contemporary composer" who blasted the return to Gregorian chant and Renaissance polyphony. He seemed to think it was some sort of conspiracy of the "conservative element" . . . and "a dangerous turn for the worse."nasty letter here.

Well, he has officially caught hell from a wide variety of newsletter readers in the latest issue (not yet on line)! It seems that the published letters are just the tip of the iceberg, because each letter addressed a different concern regarding The Idiot's letter. One writer pointed out that his immediate assumption that Rome (and of course the new Pope) was engaged in a conspiracy to mandate only certain hymns was pretty hypersensitive and paranoid. Another writer noted that The Idiot's assumption that members of the congregation (1) didn't know Latin and (2) couldn't sing it was dead wrong, pointing out that her 5 year old was perfectly capable of singing the Ave Maria and the Tantum Ergo. Another pointed out the rubric of VCII that chant was to have "pride of place" in the Church. Yet another writer went on the attack and pointed out the hubris of "Contemporary Composers" whether en masse or individually supposing that they were right and 2,000 years of Church music was wrong. And the final writer REALLY went on the attack and basically said that the average contemporary hymn was part of what was WRONG with the Church.

Whooo hoooo!

. . . and here is another article on chant that I missed. Western Music Grounded In Gregorian Chant. Our choirmaster gets his licks in < g >.

[AnAmericanMother]

Notice this shot from the Eucharistic Congress program.

The Archbishop Emeritus is keeping his eye on the new guy.

[Salvation]

**-- Wilton Gregory, of Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
-- José Horacio Gómez, of San Antonio, Texas.
-- Joseph Fiorenza, of Galveston-Houston, Texas.
-- Joseph Naumann, of Kansas City, Kansas.

-- Daniel Bohan, of Regina, Saskatchewan.

Certainly surprised at Gregory. Don't know enough about the others to know if they are deserving.

[NYer]

I know it takes a significant amount of time to do something like this.

Especially on dial up .... shhhhh! (don't let that get around :-)

Check out the thread on the new compendium of the catechism .... phew! 3 articles in one thread.

I maintain a catholic ping list. Let me know if you wish to join the group.

[dsc]

Do a search on Wilton Gregory, and then click show older.

[dsc]

"Certainly surprised at Gregory. Don't know enough about the others to know if they are deserving."

What was that thing that was going on a while back down in Texas, with the priest who offered the Latin Mass getting shafted by his bishop?

[dsc]

That poster looks like the cover to a Harry Potter novel.

I'd have a hard time trusting someone who would choose that photo and that font design.

[padfoot_lover]

My opinion on the ones in Texas:

Galveston-Houston was just made an archdiocese because of its size, so that's why Fiorenza is getting his pallium. Fiorenza is okay, however, he was a president of the USCCB one year.

Gomez was formely a bishop in Denver, and just assigned to San Antonio (which is an archdiocese), so that's why he's getting the pallium. Gomez is Opus Dei and therefore probably very orthodox.

[dsc]

"Just because somebody came up under Bernadin doesn't necessarily infect them with the taint."

Doesn't it? How can a person make a loathsome scumbag his mentor without it tainting him?

"In Gregory's case, it might have been sheer political correctness that caused his promotion."

Absolutely. If he were white, he'd be an obscure parish priest somewhere. But aren't there any affirmative-action candidates anywhere who aren't tainted with the foul stench of the lavender mafia?

"I am much more worried about his stint with the USCCB."

Bad as he was, he hasn't shown his true colors yet.

"But he seems like enough of a political animal that he knows he had better straighten up and fly right under Benedict XVI"

I think the Holy Father just told him he didn't have to. Sending him to McMurdo Sound would have been telling him to straighten up and fly right. Making him an archbishop is telling him, "Yo, dog, you my man."

I think the message for Gregory is, "Your pretense has deceived even the Pope. You have plausible deniability out the ying-yang. Now you are positioned to start doing some *real* damage on a large scale."

I can't bring myself to suggest that the Holy Father would knowingly make him an archbishop if he knew what Gregory is.

The last Holy Father made Mahoney a cardinal, this one makes Gregory an archbishop...why don't we just merge with NAMBLA and have done with it?

[padfoot_lover]

I know for a fact that Fiorenza and Gomez were named by JPII; I would assume that would also be true for Gregory. The appointments were made over the course of the past year, so Pope Benedict probably never appointed any of these archbishops; he is just following JPII's wishes.