The Consistory will celebrate the creation of 6 new cardinals, the imposition of the biretta, the consignment of the ring and the assignment of the title of Diaconate.
Courtesy visits to the new cardinals will be paid on Saturday 24 November between 16:30 and 18:30. Locations will be announced shortly.
On Sunday 25 November, the day of the Feast of Christ the King, the Pope will celebrate mass along with the six new cardinals, at 9:30 in St. Peter’s Basilica.
The new cardinals are: the American James Michael Harvey, currently Prefect of the Papal Household, the Lebanese Maronite Patriarch, Bechara Boutros Rai, the Indian Major Archbishop of Trivandrum, Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal, the Nigerian Archbishop of Abuja, John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, the Colombian Archbishop of Bogotá, Ruben Salazar Gómez and the Philippine Archbishop of Manila, Luis Antonio Tagle.
No Europeans are being created bishops on this occasion.