Starting this Monday, July 1, the person in charge of presenting Peter’s new successor to the world in an eventual conclave will be Cardinal Dominique Mamberti.
After what is known as the “white smoke,” which indicates that the Catholic Church has a new Pontiff, the cardinal protodeacon pronounces his name from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.
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This is the first of the cardinal deacons, who before the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square announces the election of the new Pope using the traditional formula: “I announce to you a great joy; we have a pope!”.
Behind the Ordinary Public Consistory which took place on the morning of this July 1 in the Vatican, the French cardinal Dominique Mamberti has been appointed as the new protodeacon.
In this way, the French cardinal, Apostolic Delegate in SomaliaNuncio in Sudan y Eritrea y Prefect of the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature, he replaces Cardinal James Michael Harvey, archpriest of the Patriarchal Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls who this Monday was elevated to the title of cardinal priest.
Currently, Cardinal Mamberti is 72 years old and will maintain this new position only if a conclave is held in the next 8 years, before turning 80.
It should be remembered that it was Cardinal Jean Louis Tauran, who died in 2018, the last cardinal who announced the election of Pope Francis on March 13, 2013.
The cardinal announced the “Pope” fighting against Parkinson’s disease that he had suffered since 2012.
Almudena Martínez-Bordiú
I am a graduate in Journalism and Advertising from the CEU San Pablo University in Madrid. Specialized in religious information in Spain since 2015. I have been a senior correspondent for ACI Prensa and EWTN Noticias in the Vatican for two years and I am currently a European correspondent based in Spain.