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New Cardinals

Pope Francis announced on 2024.10.06 that he would elevate the following 21 prelates to the Sacred College of Cardinals in a consistory on 2024.12.08.

  1. Italy Archbishop Angelo Acerbi (99), Titular Archbishop of Zella and Prelate emeritus of Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta (Knights of Malta)
  2. Peru Archbishop Carlos Gustavo Castillo Mattasoglio (74), Metropolitan Archbishop of Lima (Peru)
  3. Argentina Archbishop Vicente Bokalic Iglic, C.M. (72), Archbishop of Santiago del Estero (Argentina)
  4. Ecuador Archbishop Luis Gerardo Cabrera Herrera, O.F.M. (68), Metropolitan Archbishop of Guayaquil (Ecuador) and President of Episcopal Conference of Ecuador
  5. Chile Archbishop Fernando Natalio ChomalĂ­ Garib (67), Metropolitan Archbishop of Santiago (Chile)
  6. Japan Archbishop Tarcisius Isao Kikuchi (ă‚żăƒ«ăƒă‚·ă‚Ș èŠćœ° 抟), S.V.D. (65), Metropolitan Archbishop of Tokyo 東äșŹ (Japan), President of Caritas Internationalis, President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan and General Secretary of Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences
  7. Philippines Bishop Pablo Virgilio Siongco David (65), Bishop of Kalookan (Philippines) and President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (C.B.C.P.)
  8. Serbia Archbishop Ladislav NĂ©met, S.V.D. (68), Metropolitan Archbishop of Beograd (Serbia), President of International Episcopal Conference of Saints Cyril and Methodius and Vice-President of Council of European Bishops’ Conferences
  9. Brazil Archbishop Jaime Spengler, O.F.M. (64), Metropolitan Archbishop of Porto Alegre (Brazil), President of National Conference of Bishops of Brazil and President of Latin American Episcopal Council
  10. Cote d’Ivoire Archbishop Ignace Bessi Dogbo (63), Metropolitan Archbishop of Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire) and Apostolic Administrator of Korhogo (Cote d’Ivoire)
  11. Algeria Archbishop Jean-Paul Vesco, O.P. (62), Metropolitan Archbishop of Alger–Iulia Caesarea (Algeria)
  12. Indonesia Bishop Paskalis Bruno Syukur, O.F.M. (62), Bishop of Bogor (Indonesia) and General Secretary of Episcopal Conference of Indonesia
  13. Iran Archbishop Dominique Joseph Mathieu, O.F.M. Conv. (61), Archbishop of Tehran–Isfahan (Iran) and President of Iranian Episcopal Conference
  14. Italy Archbishop Roberto Repole (57), Metropolitan Archbishop of Torino (Italy) and Bishop of Susa (Italy)
  15. Italy Bishop Baldassare Reina (53), Titular Bishop of AquĂŠ in Mauretania, Vicegerent for the Vicariate of Rome of Roma (Italy) and Apostolic Administrator of Ostia (Italy)
  16. Canada Archbishop Francis Leo (53), Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto (Canada)
  17. Lithuania Archbishop Rolandas Makrickas (52), Titular Archbishop of Tolentino and Coadjutor Archpriest of Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major
  18. Australia Bishop Mykola Bychok, C.SS.R. (44), Bishop of Saints Peter and Paul of Melbourne of the Ukrainians (Australia)
  19. England Fr. Timothy Peter Joseph Radcliffe, O.P. (79), Master of the Order emeritus of Order of Preachers (Dominicans)
  20. Italy Fr. Fabio Baggio, C.S. (59), Undersecretary of Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and Secretary of Vatican COVID-19 Commission
  21. India Msgr. George Jacob Koovakad (51), Priest of Changanacherry of the Syro-Malabars (India) and Prelate of Honour of His Holiness

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Papal Audiences

Feasts

  • 2024.10.13: 

28á”—Ê° Sunday in Ordinary Time

21Ëąá”— Sunday after Pentecost (Extraordinary Form)

7á”—Ê° Sunday after the Martyrdom of Saint John the Forerunner (Ambrosian)

Blessed Honorat da BiaƂa, priest (Ɓowicz)

Saint Chelidonia, virgin (Subiaco)

  • 2024.10.14: 

Monday in the 28á”—Ê° Week in Ordinary Time

Saint Callistus I, pope and martyr

Monday in the 7á”—Ê° Week after the Martyrdom of Saint John the Forerunner (Ambrosian)

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral (Alife–Caiazzo, Faenza–Modigliana, Lugano, Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Ɓowicz)

Blessed Marie Poussepin, virgin (Chartres, Tours)

Blessed Peter II, abbot (Santissima Trinità di Cava de’ Tirreni)

Blessed Radzim Gaudenty, bishop (Gniezno)

Saint Donatian of Reims, bishop (Brugge)

Saint Fortunatus of Todi, bishop (Orvieto–Todi)

Saint Gaudentius of Rimini, bishop and martyr (Rimini)

Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin (Poland, Ostrava–Opava)

Saint Maximianus of Ravenna, bishop (Ravenna–Cervia)

Saint Teresa of Jesus, virgin and doctor of the Church (ƁódĆș)

Thanksgiving Day (Canada)

  • 2024.10.15: 

Saint Teresa of Jesus, virgin and doctor of the Church

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral (Bjelovar–KriĆŸevci, Oklahoma City, San BartolomĂ© de ChillĂĄn, Susa, ƁódĆș)

  • 2024.10.16: 

Wednesday in the 28á”—Ê° Week in Ordinary Time

Saint Hedwig, religious

Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral (Angra, Boise City, La Serena, Moulins, Plasencia, Santa Fe)

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral of AlbarracĂ­n (Teruel y AlbarracĂ­n)

Blessed Augustine Thevarparambil, priest (India)

Blessed Contardo Ferrini (Ambrosian)

Blessed John the Good, religious (Mantova)

Blessed Petra de San José de la Montaña, religious (Målaga)

Saint Bonita of Brioude, virgin (Le Puy-en-Velay)

Saint Dulcidius of Agen, bishop (Agen)

Saint Florentius of Orange, bishop (Avignon)

Saint Gall, abbot (Austria, Germany, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Bolzano–Bressanone, Sion, Strasbourg)

Saint Gaudericus of Vilavella (Perpignan–Elne)

Saint Gerard Majella, religious (Napoli, Sant’Angelo dei Lombardi–Conza–Nusco–Bisaccia)

Saint Gordan of Anchin, hermit (Cambrai)

Saint Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and martyr (Poitiers)

Saint Junian and Saint Amand, hermits (Limoges)

Saint Longinus (Jerusalem)

Saint Marguerite d’Youville, religious (Canada)

Saint Mommolin of Noyon, bishop (Lille)

Saint Monon of Nassogne, martyr (Namur)

Saint Richard Gwyn, martyr (Wales)

Saint Victor of Capua, bishop (Capua)

The Conversion of Saint Olaf (Norway)

  • 2024.10.17: 

Saint Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and martyr

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral (Chartres, Poitiers)

Saint Francis Isidore Gagelin, priest and martyr (Quy Nhon)

Saint Lazarus (Marseille)

Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin (Extraordinary Form)

  • 2024.10.18: 

Saint Luke, evangelist

  • 2024.10.19: 

Saturday in the 28á”—Ê° Week in Ordinary Time

Saint John de Brébeuf, Saint Isaac Jogues, priests, and companions, martyrs

Saint Paul of the Cross, priest

The Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Cathedral (Cusco, Halifax–Yarmouth, Lima, Mondoñedo–Ferrol, Reims)

Anniversary of the Dedication of the Co-Cathedral Basilica of Aquino (Sora–Cassino–Aquino–Pontecorvo)

Blessed Agnes of Jesus, religious (Le Puy-en-Velay, Saint-Flour)

Blessed Jerzy PopieƂuszko, priest and martyr (BiaƂystok, Legnica, Ordynariat Polowy Wojska Polskiego, Warszawa, Warszawa-Praga, WƂocƂawek)

Our Lady of Health (Terrassa)

Saint Acutius and Saint Eutiche, martyrs (Pozzuoli)

Saint Amabilis of Riom, priest (Clermont)

Saint Eusebius of Cremona, priest (Cremona)

Saint Fructuosus, bishop (Braga)

Saint Gatianus of Tours, bishop (Tours)

Saint Gratus of Oloron, bishop (Bayonne)

Saint Just of Novalese, monk and martyr (Susa)

Saint Lucas del EspĂ­ritu Santo, priest, and companions, martyrs (Astorga)

Saint Peter of Alcantara, priest (Extraordinary Form, Brazil, Spain)

Saturday before the Dedication (Ambrosian)

Martyrology

  • 2024.10.13: 

Saint Theophilus, bishop of Antioch

Saints Faustus, Januarius and Martial, martyrs at Cordoba

Saint Florentius, martyr in Macedonia

Saint Lubentius, priest

Saint Romolo, bishop of Genova

Saint Venant, abbot of Tours

Saint LĂ©obon, hermit

Saint ComgĂĄn, abbot, and Saint Caintigern

Saint Simperto, abbot of Murbach and later bishop of Augusta

Saint GĂ©raud, founder of abbey of Aurillac

Saint Chelidonia, virgin

Blessed Maddalena Panattieri, Dominican virgin

Blessed Alexandrina Maria da Costa

  • 2024.10.14: 

Saint Callixtus I, pope and martyr

Saint Lupulo, martyr at Capua

Saint Gaudenzio, first bishop of Rimini

Saint Donatien, first bishop of Reims

Saint Fortunato, bishop of Todi

Saint MĂ©nehould, virgin

Saint Venanzio, bishop of Luni

Saint AngadrĂȘme, abbess

Saint Domenico, Camaldolese priest

Blessed Jacques Laigneau de Langellerie, priest and martyr of France

Blessed Ana MarĂ­a Aranda Riera, virgin and martyr of Spain

Blesseds StanisƂaw Mysakowski and Franciszek RosƂaniec, priests and martyrs of England

Blessed Roman Lysko, priest and martyr of Ukraine

  • 2024.10.15: 

Saint Teresa of Jesus, Discalced carmelite virgin of Ávila and doctor of the Church

Saint Barses, bishop of Edessa in Osrhoëne

Saint Severus, bishop of Trier

Saint Thecla, abbess of Kitzingen

Birth of Saint Hedwig of Silesia, religious

Blessed Gonçalo de Lagos, Augustinian priest

Saint Magdalena, virgin and martyr of Japan

Blessed Narciso Basté Basté, priest and martyr of Spain

  • 2024.10.16: 

Saint Hedwig, duchess of Silesia

Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, virgin of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, visionary of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Saint Longinus, soldier at the cross of Jesus

Saint Eliphius, martyr at Toul

Saints Martinian, Saturian and Maxima, martyrs in Africa

Saints Amand and Junien, hermits

Saint Gallus, abbot

Saint Momelin, bishop of Noyon

Saint Lullus, bishop of Mainz

Saint Vital, hermit at Nantes

Saint Gaudéric, farmer

Saint Bonnette, virgin

Saint Anastase, Benedictine monk

Saint Bertrand, bishop of Comminges

Blessed GĂ©rard de Clairvaux, abbot of Clairvaux, martyr

Saint Gerardo Maiella, Redemptorist religious

Blesseds Anicet KopliƄski, Capuchin priest, and Józef Jankowski, Pallotine priest, martyrs at Auschwitz

  • 2024.10.17: 

Saint Ignatius, bishop of Antioch and martyr

Saint Hosea, prophet

Saints Rufus and Zosimus, martyrs

Holy martyrs of Volitani

Saint John, hermit in Egypt

Saint Dulcide, bishop of Agen

Saint Florent, bishop of Orange

Blessed Gilbert, abbot of CĂźteaux

Blessed Baldassarre Ravaschieri, Franciscan priest

Saint Richard Gwyn, martyr of England

Blessed Pietro della NativitĂ  di Maria, Piarist priest

Transitus of Saint Marguerite-Marie Alacoque, virgin

Blessed Jacques Burin, priest and martyr of France

Blesseds Marie-Natalie-Joseph de Saint-Louis and 4 companions, Ursuline virgins, martyrs of France

Saint François-Isidore Gagelin, priest and martyr of Vietnam

Blessed Contardo Ferrini

Blessed Fidel Fuidio RodrĂ­guez, Marist religious, martyr of Spain

Blessed RamĂłn Esteban Bou Pascual, priest and martyr of Spain

Blessed TĂĄrsila CĂłrdoba Belda, martyr of Spain

  • 2024.10.18: 

Saint Luke, evangelist

Saint Ascelpiades, bishop of Antioch

Saints Proculo, Eutichio and Acuzio, martyrs at Pozzuoli

Saint Amable, priest

Saint Monon, martyr in Brabant

Saint Pedro de AlcĂĄntara de Garavito y Vilela de Sanabria, priest, founder of Discalced Franciscans

Passion of Saint Isaac Jogues, Jesuit priest and martyr of America

Birth of Saint Paul of the Cross, priest

  • 2024.10.19: 

Saints John de Brébeuf, Isaac Jogues, Jean de Lalande, René Goupil, Gabriel Lalemant, Antoine Daniel, Charles Garnier and Noël Chabanel, Jesuit religious, martyrs of Canada

Saint Paul of the Cross, priest, founder of the Passionists

Saint Joel, prophet

Saints Ptolemy, Lucius and companions, martyrs at Rome

Saint Asterio, martyr at Ostia

Saints Savinien and Potentien, bishops of Sens, martyrs

Saint Varus, martyr in Egypt

Saint Grat, bishop of Oloron

Saint Ethbin, monk

Saint VĂ©ran, bishop of Cavaillon

Saint Aquilin, bishop of Évreux

Saint Frithuswith, virgin

Blessed Thomas HĂ©lye, priest

Saint Philip Howard, martyr of England

Saints Lucas del Espíritu Santo Alonso Gorda and Matthaeus Kohyƍe, Dominican religious, martyrs of Japan

Blessed AgnĂšs de JĂ©sus Galand, Dominican virgin


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