Glasgow: Archbishop Tartaglia to receive pallium from Pope Francis

Jun 26th, 2013

Pope Francis will impose the pallium on Archbishop Tartaglia and 34 other new archbishops on 29 June, the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul. The pallium is the distinctive small wool collar worn by Metropolitan Archbishops over their liturgical vestments.

The new pallia are solemnly blessed after the First Vespers on the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, and are then kept in a special silver-gilt casket near the Confessio Petri (tomb of St Peter) until the morning of June 29. It was Blessed John Paul II who began the custom of calling all new metropolitan archbishops created in the course of the previous year to Rome to receive the pallium directly from the hands of the Pope on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul.

Among those receiving the pallium with Archbishop Tartaglia is the Patriarch of Lisbon and the new Archbishops of San Francisco, Delhi, Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo.

Archbishop Tartaglia said: "The conferral of the pallium by the Holy Father is a great moment in the life of all the new Archbishops present. It reminds us of the strong bond that links us to the successor of Peter, and recalls for us the solemn duty we have to guard and teach the faith."

The full list of Archbishops receiving the pallium follows:

1. Patriarch Manuel Jose Macario do Nascimento Clemente, patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal
2. Archbishop Dieudonne Nzapalainga, C.S.Sp., of Bangui, Central African Republic
3. Archbishop Carlo Roberto Maria Redaelli of Gorizia, Italy
4. Archbishop Claudio Dalla Zuanna, S.C.I., of Beira, Mozambique
5. Archbishop Prakash Mallavarapu of Visakhapatnam, India
6. Archbishop Antonio Carlos Altieri, S.D.B., of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
7. Archbishop Marek Jedraszewski of Lodz, Poland
8. Archbishop Philip Tartaglia of Glasgow, Scotland, Great Britain
9. Archbishop Salvatore Joseph Cordileone of San Francisco, California, USA
10. Archbishop Rolando Joven Tria Tirona, O.C.D., of Caceres, Philippines
11. Archbishop Rogelio Cabrera Lopez of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
12. Archbishop Joseph William Tobin, C.Ss.R., of Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
13. Archbishop Carlos Maria Franzini of Mendoza, Argentina
14. Archbishop Lorenzo Ghizzoni of Ravenna-Cervia, Italy
15. Archbishop George Antonysamy of Madras and Mylapore, India
16. Archbishop Anil Joseph Thomas Couto of Delhi, India
17. Archbishop John Wong Soo Kau of Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
18. Archbishop Murray Chatlain of Keewatin-Le Pas, Manitoba, Canada
19. Archbishop Sérgio Eduardo Castriani, C.S.Sp., of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
20. Archbishop Peter Loy Chong of Suva, Fiji Islands
21. Archbishop Alfonso Cortes Contreras of Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico
22. Archbishop Alexander King Sample of Portland in Oregon, USA
23. Archbishop Joseph Effiong Ekuwem of Calabar, Nigeria
24. Archbishop Jesus Juarez Parraga, S.D.B., of Sucre, Bolivia
25. Archbishop Fabio Martinez Castilla of Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico
26. Archbishop Ramon Alfredo Dus of Resistencia, Argentina
27. Archbishop Mario Aurelio Poli of Buenos Aires, Argentina
28. Archbishop Gintaras Linas Grusas of Vilnius, Lithuania
29. Archbishop Michael Owen Jackels of Dubuque, Iowa, USA
30. Archbishop Duro Hranic of Dakovo-Osijek, Croatia
31. Archbishop Moacir Silva of Ribeirao Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil
32. Archbishop Jozef Piotr Kupny of Wroclaw, Poland
33. Archbishop Sergio Alfredo Gualberti Calandrina of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
34. Archbishop Giuseppe Petrocchi of L’Aquila, Italy