The new Cardinals are to be:
- Archbishop James Michael Harvey, Prefect of the Prefecture of the Papal Household
- Patriarch Béchara Boutros Raï, O.M.M., Patriarch of Antiochia {Antioch} (Maronite), Lebanon
- Major Archbishop Baselios Cleemis (Isaac) Thottunkal, Major Archbishop of Trivandrum (Syro-Malankarese), India
- Archbishop John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja, Nigeria
- Archbishop Jesús Rubén Salazar Gómez, Archbishop of Bogotá, Colombia
- Archbishop Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle, Archbishop of Manila, Philippines