The promotion of Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle to the rank of cardinal-bishop 'required special papal permission.'
SOLIDARITY. Pope Francis hugs Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, then archbishop of Manila, in a ceremony at the Vatican on November 21, 2013, days after Typhoon Yolanda ravaged the Philippines. File photo by Tiziana Fabi/AFP
The former Manila archbishop is now one of 11 cardinal-bishops in the Vatican, aside from 3 others who belong to the Eastern Rite of the Catholic Church and who live away from Rome. Being a cardinal-bishop is significant, too, because among them is chosen the Dean of the College of Cardinals, a positionThe Dean of the College of Cardinals plays a big role in running the Vatican whenever a pope dies and resigns. The Dean, if below the age of 80, also presides over papal elections. The most prominent former Dean in recent history was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict XVI.Traditionally, there have only been 6 cardinal-bishops in the Vatican.
Canon 350 of the Code of Canon Law states that cardinal-bishops are those “to whom the Roman Pontiff assigns the title of a suburbicarian church.”, “equating it in all respects to the Cardinals awarded the title of a suburbicarian Church.”because he was not assigned a suburbicarian see.
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