Pope John Paul appointed 37 new cardinals today. The following is a list of their names, nationalities and current positions:
1. Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re, 67, Italian, Prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for Bishops.
2. Archbishop Francois Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan, 72, Vietnamese, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
3. Archbishop Agostino Cacciavillan, 74, Italian, president of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See
4. Archbishop Sergio Sebastiani, 69, Italian, president of the Prefecture of the Economic Affairs of the Holy See
5. Archbishop Zenon Grocholewski, 61, Polish, Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education
6. Archbishop Jose Saraiva Martins, 69, Portuguese, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
7. Archbishop Crescenzio Sepe, 57, Secretary-general of the Committee for the 2000 Jubilee Year
8. Archbishop Jorge Maria Mejia, 77, Argentine, Chief Archivist of the Holy Roman Church
9. His Beatitude Ignace Moussa I Daoud, 70, Syrian, Prefect of the Congregation for Oriental Churches
10. Archbishop Mario Francesco Pompedda, 71, Italian, Prefect of the Supreme Apostolic Tribunal
11. Bishop Walter Kasper, 67, German, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
12. Archbishop Antonio Jose Gonzalez Zumarraga, 75, Ecuadoran, Archbishop of Quito
13. Archbishop Ivan Dias, Indian, 64, Archbishop of Bombay
14. Archbishop Geraldo Majella Agnelo, 67, Brazilian, Archbishop of Sao Salvador da Bahia[ QL] 15. Archbishop Pedro Rubiano Saenz, 68, Colombian, Archbishop of Bogota
16. Archbishop Theodore Edgar McCarrick, 70, American, Archbishop of Washington D.C.
17. Archbishop Desmond Connell, 74, Irish, Archbishop of Dublin
18. Archbishop Audrys Juozas Backis, 63, Lithuanian, Archbishop of Vilnius
19. Archbishop Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa, 67, Chilean, Archbishop of Santiago
20. Archbishop Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, 58, Honduran, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa
21. Archbishop Bernard Agre, 74, Ivorian, Archbishop of Abidjan
22. Archbishop Louis-Marie Bille, 62, French, Archbishop of Lyon
23. Archbishop Ignacio Antonio Velasco Garcia, 72, Venezuelan, Archbishop of Caracas
24. Archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, 57, Peruvian, Archbishop of Lima
25. Archbishop Francisco Alvarez Martinez, 75, Spanish, Archbishop of Toledo
26. Archbishop Claudio Hummes, Brazilian, 66, Archbishop of Sao Paulo
27. Archbishop Varkey Vithayathil, Indian, 73, Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church in India
28. Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 64, Argentine, Archbishop of Buenos Aires
29. Archbishop Jose da Cruz Policarpo, 64, Portuguese, Patriarch of Lisbon
30. Archbishop Severino Poletto, 67, Italian, Archbishop of Turin
31. Archbishop Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, 68, British, Archbishop of Westminster, London
32. Archbishop Edward Michael Egan, 68, American, Archbishop of New York
33. His Beatitude Stephanos II Ghattas, 81, Egyptian, Patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts
34. Archbishop Jean Honore, 80, French, Archbishop Emeritus of Tours
35. Father Roberto Tucci, 79, Italian, Head of Vatican Radio and main organiser of Pope's foreign trips
36. Monsignor Leo Scheffczyk, 80, German theologian
37. Father Avery Dulles, 82, American, Jesuit theologian.