Synod elects members to post-synodal council

Published: 2005-10-24

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Members of the Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist elected 12 cardinals and bishops to serve on a post-synodal council, and Pope Benedict XVI appointed three others to the body. The appointees were reported as: Peruvian Cardinal Juan Cipriani Thorne of Lima; Hong Kong Bishop Joseph Zen Ze-kiun; and Bishop Djura Dzudzar, the bishop for Byzantine-rite Catholics in Serbia and Montenegro. The others are: Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments; Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires; English Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor of Westminster; Italian Cardinal Angelo Scola of Venice; Indian Cardinal Telesphore Placidus Toppo of Ranchi; Australian Cardinal George Pell of Sydney; Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet of Quebec; German Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity; Congolese Archbishop Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kisangani; Nigerian Archbishop John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan of Abuja; Bishop Donald W. Wuerl of Pittsburgh; and Bishop Luis Tagle of Imus, Philippines.

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