Cardinal Dolan — UPDATED

Cardinal Dolan — UPDATED 2016-09-30T17:34:54-04:00

Yes, as many expected, he’s getting the red hat.

The list:

  • Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples;
  • Manuel Montiero de Castro, Major Penitentiary of the Roman Church;
  • Santos Abril y Castelló, archpriest of St Mary Major;
  • Antonio Maria Veglió, president of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Refugees;
  • Giuseppe Bertello, president of the Government of the Vatican City-State
  • Joao Braz de Aviz, prefect of the Congregation for Religious;
  • Francesco Coccopalmerio, president of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts;
  • Edwin Frederick O’Brien, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre;
  • Domenico Calcagno, president of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See;
  • George Alencherry, Major-Archbishop of Erkugnalam-Angamaly of the Syro-Malybars;
  • Thomas Christopher Collins, archbishop of Toronto;
  • Dominik Duka OP, archbishop of Prague;
  • Willem Jacobus Eijk, archbishop of Utrecht;
  • Giuseppe Betori, archbishop of Florence;
  • Timothy Michael Dolan, archbishop of New York;
  • Rainer Maria Woelki, archbishop of Berlin;
  • John Tong Hon, bishop of Hong Kong

There are others, over 80 (past the voting age for the next conclave).  Check here.

UPDATE: John Allen has some typically astute observations.


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