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June 2, 2022

Dunn gets long-awaited pallium

Archbishop Brian Dunn

Long delayed by COVID, Halifax-Yarmouth Archbishop Brian Dunn received his pallium from the papal nuncio to Canada, Archbishop Ivan Jurkovič, on May 31.

Published in Canada
January 29, 2015

Feed my sheep: Archbishops to receive palliums at home with their flock

Archbishop Leonard P. Blair of Hartford, Conn., center, and other new archbishops wear palliums received from Pope Francis during a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this June 29, 2014, file photo. Bestowal ceremonies will henceforth take pl ace in local archdioceses.

VATICAN CITY - When Pope Francis celebrates the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul in June, he will set aside an element that has been part of the Mass for the past 32 years; the Vatican confirmed he will not confer the pallium on new archbishops during the liturgy.

Published in International