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Pope Francis announced that he will create 13 new cardinals on November 28, including Bishop Cornelius Sim, the apostolic vicar of Brunei.
The Pope made the announcement at the end of his Angelus address on October 25, telling the crowd in St. Peter’s Square the names of the nine cardinals under the age of 80, who will be eligible to vote in a conclave, and the names of four ecclesiastical elders whose red hats are a sign of esteem and honor.
Bishop Sim, 69, was born in Seria, Brunei, and is of Chinese and Dusunic descent.
With an engineering degree in Scotland, he worked in Brunei for seven years before beginning his priestly studies. When he was ordained a priest in 1989, he was the second local priest in Brunei.
He was appointed Vicar General of Brunei in 1995 and two years later Prefect of the Apostolic Prefecture of Brunei.
In 2004, Pope John Paul II appointed him Vicar Apostolic of Brunei and he received episcopal consecration in 2005.
Archbishop José F. Advincula of Capiz in the Philippines is the other designated cardinal from Asia.
The 68-year-old was ordained a priest in 1976. He was appointed bishop of San Carlos on July 25, 2001. Pope Benedict XVI appointed him archbishop of Capiz a decade later.
The archbishop speaks English and the local languages Tagalog and Ilonggo.
Once the consistory is held in late November, the Catholic Church will have 128 cardinals under the age of 80 and they will be eligible to vote in a conclave. Pope Francis will have created just over 57% of them.
Sixteen of the cardinals created by Saint John Paul II will still be under 80 years old, as will 39 of the cardinals created by Pope Benedict XVI; Pope Francis will have created 73 of the electors.
Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who the pope removed as prefect of the Congregation for Saints at the end of September, is 72 years old but renounced the rights of a cardinal, including the right to enter a conclave to elect a new pope.
Italians will continue to have a huge portion of voters, reaching 22 out of 128; The United States will stand at nine voters with the cardinal designate, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, who will take the place of Cardinal Donald William Wuerl, who was Archbishop of Washington until 2018.
Here is the full list of the new cardinals, in the order named by the Pope:
– Maltese Monsignor Mario Grech, 63, general secretary of the Synod of Bishops.
– Italian Bishop Marcello Semeraro, 72 years old, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
– Archbishop Antoine Kambanda of Kigali, Rwanda, who will turn 62 on November 10.
– Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Washington, United States, 72.
– Archbishop Jose F. Advincula of Capiz, Philippines, 68.
– Archbishop Celestino Aos Braco of Santiago, Chile, 75.
– Bishop Cornelius Sim, Apostolic Vicar of Brunei, 69.
– Italian Archbishop Paolo Lojudice of Siena, 56 years old.
– Franciscan Father Mauro Gambetti, custodian of the Sacred Convent of Assisi in Assisi, who was going to celebrate his 55th birthday on October 27.
– Retired Bishop Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel of San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico, 80.
– Retired Italian Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, former nuncio, 80 years old.
– Italian Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the papal house, 86.
– Italian Father Enrico Feroci, 80, former director of Caritas in Rome.
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