On January 28, 2001, during the Angelus, Pope John Paul II announced the names of the two cardinals that he had reserved in pectore in the consistory of February 21, 1998, and also named 5 new cardinals that will be created in the consistory of February 21, 2001 together with the 37 prelates and ecclesiastics that he announced last Sunday, January 21, 2001. Following are their names.

Cardinals reserved in pectore:

Marian Jaworski, archbishop of Lviv of the Latins, Ukraine.

Janis Pujats, archbishop of Riga, Latvia.

New Cardinals:

Lubomyr Husar, M.S.U., archbishop major of Lviv of the Ukrainians, Ukraine.

Johannes Joachim Degenhardt, archbishop of Paderborn, Germany.

Julio Terrazas Sandoval, C.SS.R., archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.

Wilfrid Fox Napier, O.F.M., archbishop of Durban, South Africa.

Karl Lehmann, bishop of Mainz, Germany.

Pope John Paul II announced on January 21, 2001, during the Angelus, the names of the 37 prelates and ecclesiastics that he will elevate to the cardinalate in a consistory to be held on February 21, 2001. The Pope raised the number of electors to 128. This will be the largest consistory in history, surpassing the one held by Pope Paul VI in 1969 for the creation of 35 Cardinals. After the consistory, the total number of cardinals will be 178. The Pope said he has the intention of announcing in the near future the names of the cardinals he has reserved in pectore since the consistory of 1998. Following is the catalog of the new cardinals in alphabetical order.

Geraldo Majella Agnelo, archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.

Bernard Agré, archbishop of Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Francisco Álvarez Martínez, archbishop of Toledo, Spain.

Audrys Juozas Backis, archbishop of Vilnius, Lithuania.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J., archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Louis-Marie Billé, archbishop of Lyon, France.

Agostino Cacciavillan, titular archbishop of Amiterno, president of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See.

Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, archbishop of Lima, Perú.

Desmond Connell, archbishop of Dublin, Ireland.

Ignace Moussa Daoud, patriarch ad personam, prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.

Ivan Dias, archbishop of Bombay, India.

Avery Dulles, S.J., theologian, Fordham University, New York, United States.

Edward Michael Egan, archbishop of New York, United Staes.

Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa, archbishop of Santiago, Chile.

Stéphanos II Ghattas, C.M., patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts, Egypt.

Antonio José González Zumárraga, archbishop of Quito, Ecuador.

Zenon Grocholewski, titular archbishop of Agropoli, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education.

Jean Honoré, archbishop emeritus of Tours, France.

Cláudio Hummes, O.F.M., archbishop of São Paulo, Brazil.

Walter Kasper, bishop emeritus Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany, secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity.

Theodore McCarrick, archbishop of Washington, United States.

Jorge María Mejía, titular archbishop of Apollonia, Archivist and Librarian of the Holy Roman Church.

Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, archbishop of Westminster, England.

François Xavier Nguyên Van Thuân, titular archbishop of Vadesi, President of Pontifical Council Iustitia et Pax.

Severino Poletto, archbishop of Turin, Italy.

José da Cruz Policarpo, patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal.

Mario Francesco Pompedda, titular archbishop of Bisarcio, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature.

Giovanni Battista Re, titular archbishop of Vescovio, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.

Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, S.D.B., archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Pedro Rubiano Sáenz, archbishop of Bogotá, Colombia.

José Saraiva Martins, C.M.F., titular archbishop of Tuburnica, prefect of Congregation for the Causes of the Saints.

Leo Scheffczyk, theologian, prelate of honor of His Holiness, archdiocese of Munich und Freising, Germany.

Sergio Sebastiani, titular archbishop of Cesarea di Mauritania, president of Prefecture for Economic Affairs of the Holy See.

Crescenzio Sepe, titular archbishop of Grado, secretary general of the Great Jubilee Committee, president of the Peregrinatio ad Petri Cathedram.

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