Cardinal Jose Advincula, the new archbishop of Manila, will formally be installed at the Manila Cathedral on June 24.
Bishop Broderick Pabillo, apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Manila, said “the official notice will come out on Sunday.”
Pope Francis named the former archbishop of Capiz to the College of Cardinals in October last year.
On May 18, the cardinal celebrated Mass at the St. Pius X Seminary in Roxas City, where he bade farewell to its students, teachers and administrators.
The 69-year old cardinal assured them of his prayers and asked them to also pray for his new mission.
“What will happen to me there I do not know,” he said.
“Yet, I consider life of no importance to me, if only I may finish the course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus to bear witness to the Gospel of God’s grace,” he said.
“I assure you of my prayers… but please pray for me that at the end of our life, I may be able to say, like St Paul, we have completed well, we have finished the race, we have kept the faith, and we have become witnesses of the Lord to the world,” said the cardinal.
Prior to his installation, Cardinal Advincula will receive his “red hat” and ring as symbols of his position in the Catholic hierarchy from the papal nuncio during Mass at the Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Roxas City on May 28.
Cardinal Advincula, 69, is the country’s ninth cardinal, following cardinals Orlando Quevedo, Luis Antonio Tagle, Gaudencio Rosales, Jose Sanchez, Ricardo Vidal, Jaime Sin, Julio Rosales, and Rufino Santos.
On March 25, the pope appointed him as Manila archbishop, succeeding Cardinal Tagle, who now heads the Vatican’s Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
Cardinal Advincula is the 33rd archbishop of Manila.
