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Catholics Are Getting 15 New 'Princes of the Church.' Do You Recognize All the Different Countries They're From?
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Catholics Are Getting 15 New 'Princes of the Church.' Do You Recognize All the Different Countries They're From?

"...coming from 13 countries from every continent..."

VATICAN CITY (TheBlaze/AP) — Pope Francis has named 15 new cardinals, selecting the "princes of the church" from 13 nations, including far-flung corners of the world such as Tonga, New Zealand and Myanmar.

(FILES) This file picture taken on April 18, 2005 shows cardinals entering the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican before the start of the conclave. The conclave triggered by the historic resignation of Benedict XVI will start on March 12, 2013, with the eyes of the world on the 115 men who must nominate one of their own to take his place.  AFP PHOTO / FILES / OSSERVATORE ROMANOARTURO MARI   RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE ? MANDATORY CREDIT ?AFP PHOTO/OSSERVATORE ROMANO"        (Photo credit should read ARTURO MARI/AFP/Getty Images) This file picture taken on April 18, 2005 shows cardinals entering the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican. (Arturo Mari/AFP/Getty Images)

Francis said Sunday the new cardinals reflect the church's diversity and will be formally installed on Feb. 14.

The 13 countries from which Pope Francis' newly selected cardinals hail. (Image via mapchart.net/TheBlaze)

On Sunday morning, Vatican Radio reported the full list of, as Pope Francis put it, "15 new Cardinals who, coming from 13 countries from every continent, manifest the indissoluble links between the Church of Rome and the particular Churches present in the world":

Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura

Archbishiop Manuel José Macario do Nascimento Clemente, Patriarch of Lisbon (Portugal)

Archbishop Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, C.M., of Addis Abeba (Ethiopia)

Archbishop John Atcherley Dew of Wellington (New Zealand)

Archbishop Edoardo Menichelli of Ancona-Osimo (Italy)

Archbishop Pierre Nguyên Văn Nhon of Hà Nôi (Viêt Nam)

Archbishop Alberto Suàrez Inda of Morelia (Mexico)

Archbishop Charles Maung Bo, S.D.B., of Yangon (Myanmar)

Archbishop Francis Xavier Kriengsak Kovithavanij of Bangkok (Thailand)

Archbishop Francesco Montenegro of Agrigento (Italy)

Archbishop Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet, S.D.B., of Montevideo (Uruguay)

Archbishop Ricardo Blázquez Pérez of Vallodolid (Spain)

Bishop José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán, O.A.R., of David (Panamá)

Bishop Arlindo Gomes Furtado, of Santiago de Cabo Verde (Archipelago of Cape Verde)

Bishop Soane Patita Paini Mafi of Tonga (Island of Tonga)

Pope Francis added a prayer at the end of his announcement, saying, “Let us pray for the new Cardinals, that, renewed in their love for Christ, they might be witnesses of His Gospel in the City of Rome and in the world, and with their pastoral experience they might support me more intensely in my apostolic service.”

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