Pope's surprise announcement of new cardinals from across globe

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By Andrea Tornielli

Scrolling through the list of the 21 names, 18 of whom are under eighty years of age and therefore electors in a possible conclave, there are both confirmations within the Holy See and in the world . But there are also 'surprises' that are in line with the choices made to date by the Successor of Peter.

Significant, in his attention to the peripheries and frontline Churches, are the appointments of Stephen Mulla, Archbishop of Juba, in South Sudan, a country visited by Francis last February; Stephen Brislin, Archbishop of Cape Town, in South Africa; and Protase Rugambwa, coadjutor Archbishop of Tabora in Tanzania: all three African metropolitan sees will have a cardinal for the first time.

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