Pope Francis announced on Sunday the holding of a consistory on Saturday August 27, during which he will create 21 cardinals, including the Archbishop of Marseille Jean-Marc Aveline, who will thus become the fifth French cardinal elector.
"Next August 27, I will organize a consistory for the appointment of new cardinals," said Pope Francis just after his traditional Sunday prayer, pronounced from the window of the Apostolic Palace overlooking St. Peter's Square.
He then listed the names and titles of the lucky ones.
Born in French Algeria
In the event of a conclave, only 16 of them, those under the age of 80, will be able to participate in the election of a new pope.
With the appointment of the 63-year-old Archbishop of Marseille, the college of cardinals will have five Frenchmen with the Archbishop Emeritus of Paris André Vingt-Trois, the Archbishop Emeritus of Lyon Philippe Barbarin, the Archbishop Emeritus of Bordeaux Jean -Pierre Ricard, and finally Dominique Mamberti prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura (supreme legal body of the Vatican).
Born in 1958 in Sidi Bel Abbés in then French Algeria, Jean-Marc Aveline was ordained a priest in Marseilles in 1984. He then continued his training at the Carmelite seminary in Paris, studying at the Catholic Institute of Paris, where he obtained a doctorate in theology in 2000.
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