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Archbishop of Havana is named cardinal by Pope Francis
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Pope Francis announced that on October 5 there will be a Consistory for the creation of cardinals in the Vatican and appointed the 13 new cardinals, among which is the Archbishop of Havana, Monsignor Juan de la Caridad García Rodríguez.

The announcement was made by the Pontiff at the end of the Angelus prayer on September 1. Specifically, it is about 10 new cardinal electors in a future Conclave and 3 more prelates who will be members of the College of Cardinals, but for reasons of age, they would not vote in the next Conclave of election of the Supreme Pontiff.

Currently the cardinal school is composed of 216 cardinals, of them 118 voters and 98 non-voters, to which the 13 announced will be added.

Biography of Monsignor Juan de la Caridad García Rodríguez

Monsignor Juan de la Caridad García Rodríguez, was born in Camagüey in 1948. He recently replaced Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino in 2016, recently as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana. His episcopate motto is: “Go and announce the gospel.”

He entered the “San Basilio Magno” Seminar in El Cobre where he began his philosophical and theological studies and subsequently completed his theological training at the “San Carlos and San Ambrosio” Seminary.

He was ordained a priest in 1972 at the parish temple of Nuestra ’Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria’ ’in Morón. In 1997 he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Camagüey and in 2002 he became Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Camagüey.

In these new appointments, the Pope elevates cardinals to prelates with important positions in the Curia as is traditional, and as in the various Consistories he has held, he elects bishops from various parts of the world so that all continents are equally represented.

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