UNITED KINGDOM/VATICAN CITY
The Tablet
12 January 2014 11:46 by Liz Dodd
The Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, is to be made a cardinal, Pope Francis announced today.
He, along with 18 others, including men from Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, will be appointed at the upcoming consistory in Rome on 22 February.
Pope Francis made the announcement to hundreds of thousands of pilgrims at the end of the Angelus in St Peter’s Square.
Archbishop Nichols will become the only cardinal of voting age in England and Wales. The former Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, turned 80 last year, making him ineligible to vote in the conclave that elected Pope Francis.
Vincent Nichols was born in Crosby, Merseyside, in 1945 and trained at the Venerable English College, Rome. He was ordained for the Archdiocese of Liverpool on 21 December 1969 and served there for 14 years before taking on a number of roles in the Catholic Bishops Conference for England and Wales.
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