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Multiple Pallia

Each Metropolitan Archbishop receives his pallium, the white woollen band with black crosses worn around the neck over the chasuble as a sign of his authority, from the hands of the Pope at the next solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul after his installation.

As Archbishop Vincent Nichols reminded us in a recent interview he now has the privilege of having two (one received from John Paul II on 29.06.2001 as Archbishop of Birmingham and one from Benedict XVI on 29.06.2009 as Archbishop of Westminster).

And he then proceeded to tell us what will finally happen to his pallia. After his death the current pallium will be placed on his shoulders and the other one folded under his head and both will be buried with him.

Archbishop of Westminster receives Pallium from Pope Benedict XVI from Catholic Westminster on Vimeo.

I presume that Pope Benedict will have three pallia buried with him - his pallium as Archbishop of München and Freising and his two different papal pallia:

In 2008 the mosaic of Benedict XVI in San Paolo fuori le Mura, planned for posterity, was actually altered to reflect the change in papal fashion !

Similar Shunting in Westminster and Birmingham

After presenting his mandatory resignation as Archbishop of Westminster shortly before his 75th birthday and being asked by Pope Benedict to stay in place for the time being, my "favourite" Cardinal, Cormac MURPHY O'Connor, was finally granted his well-earned retirement in 2009, to be replaced by native Liverpudlian Vincent Nichols, until then Archbishop of Birmingham and himself a former auxiliary in Westminster. In fact it was he who celebrated the requiem mass for the late Cardinal Basil Hume in 1999 and served as Apostolic Administrator of the archdiocese (which cutely prefers to call itself a "diocese") during the ensuing interregnum until Cormac's arrival.

It will be interesting to await Archbishop Nichols' theo-political development at Westminster, since he has been observed to have become decidedly more conservative during his stay in Birmingham.

In October came the return half of the swap, as Westminster's Auxiliary Bishop Bernard Longley was appointed Archbishop of Birmingham. The following "family" photo, taken at Archbishop Longley's installation in December 2009,

shows the new Archbishop with crozier surrounded by (from left to right) Archbishop Faustino Sainz Muñoz, Papal Nuncio to Great Britain; Auxiliary Bishop William Kenney CP; Archbishop Vincent Nichols; Auxiliary Bishop David McGough; retired Auxiliary Bishop Philip Pargeter; Cardinal Cormac; and Bishop Kieran Conry, former administrator of St. Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham, and Cormac's successor in 2000 as Bishop of Arundel and Brighton.

Some Selected Episcopal Appointments

Hi there !

Since I have been away for quite a while, there have been a lot of new bishops appointed in the meantime and it would perhaps not make sense to introduce them all here. So I've decided to pick out a few bishops of particular interest to me.

Zuerst mein Ortsbischof.





Im April 2008 trat unser langjähriger Bischof von Münster, Dr. Reinhard Lettmann, in den wohlverdienten Ruhestand.

Während einer Sedisvakanz von fast neun Monaten übernahm Weihbischof Dr. Franz-Josef Overbeck die Leitung des Bistums als Apostolischer Administrator. Die meisten Beobachter rechneten damit, dass Bischof Overbeck den Zuschlag bekommen würde, und daher waren wir nicht wenig überrascht, als es kurz vor Weihnachten hieß, der bisherige Bischof von Essen, Dr. Felix Genn, sei zum neuen Nachfolger des Hl. Liudger und Bischof von Münster ernannt worden.

Bischof Overbeck musste aber nicht lange warten, bis er selber im Oktober 2009 zum Nachfolger von Bischof Genn als Bischof von Essen (im Volksmund "Ruhrbischof" genannt) berufen wurde. Am 20. Dezember 2009 wurde er in dieses Amt eingeführt, kurz bevor Essen und die Ruhr zur Kulturhauptstadt Europas 2010 wurde. Overbeck ist mit 45 Jahren der jüngste Bischof Deutschlands.

Hier ein Foto, das die Bischöfe Overbeck (li) und Genn (re) zusammen zeigt:


Mit der Beförderung Bischof Overbecks und dem Tod eines weiteren Münsteraner Weihbischofs, Dr. Josef Voß, kurz vor Weihnachten 2009, waren insgesamt vier Weihbischofsstellen im Bistum Münster frei - Rom hat nun alle Hände voll zu tun, um diese Ernennungen bald vorzunehmen.

Summary: In Münster, goodbye Reinhold Lettmann after 28 years and hello Felix Genn.
And in Essen: Genn goes and Auxiliary Franz-Josef Overbeck from Münster, Germany's youngest bishop, becomes the new "Ruhr Bishop".