Archbishop Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi shall be made a cardinal, Pope Francis introduced in Vatican Metropolis on Sunday, in a transfer that may make him the seventh Japanese nationwide elevated to the place.
Kikuchi, the archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Tokyo, may also be eligible to vote in a papal conclave — a close-door assembly held on the Sistine Chapel the place cardinals elect a brand new pope when the Holy See is vacant. Electors are restricted to cardinals underneath the age of 80 on the time the emptiness happens.
The Tokyo archbishop is amongst 21 clergymen world wide who’re set to be formally admitted to the Faculty of Cardinals at a consistory on the Vatican on Dec. 8. The final time the pontiff named new cardinals was in September 2023.