page_title: Cardinals created by John XXIII
section_title: 15 December 1958
hierarchical_section_title: Cardinals created by John XXIII / 15 December 1958
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Franz Cardinal Konig. Permission under GFDL was granted through this email: attached to this e-mail I send you a picture of cardinal König for the web-article. Yours sincerely Andreas Gutenbrunner Archdiocese of Vienna Department of Public Relations Wollzeile 2 1010 Vienna Tel: 0043 1 515 52 - 3591 Fax: 0043 1 515 52 - 2776 E-Mail: oeff.arbeit@edw.or.at http://stephanscom.at Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Gesendet: Montag, 6. Februar 2006 03:22 Url: http://stephanscom.at anrede: Herr betreff: photo of Cardinal Franz Konig for Web-based encyclopedia. text: Dear Sir: I am a volunteer writer and editor for Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia on the internet. I would like to post in Wikipedia a photo of Franz Cardinal Konig. I would like to ask for a photo from you. Once this photo is posted in Wikipedia anybody will now be able to use it. Thank you. Danke.
context_page_description: Pope John XXIII created 52 cardinals in five consistories. Beginning at his first consistory, he expanded the size of the College beyond the limit of seventy established in 1586 and on several occasions announced that further increases should be expected. It rose to 88 in January 1961. He named three additional cardinals in pectore, that is, secretly, but did not reveal their names before his death.
  In 1962 he initiated the rule that all cardinals should be bishops. He consecrated the twelve non-bishop members of the College himself in April. He created one cardinal who later became pope, Pope Paul VI.
  John’s creation of cardinals at annual consistories was a marked departure from the periods of several years that his predecessor Pius XII allowed between consistories and a return to the frequency of earlier in the 20th century.
context_section_description: Post John announced the names of 23 new cardinals on 17 November 1958, including 13 Italians, ten of whom held offices in the Roman Curia. Though not as international a group as those named by his predecessor Pius XII, it included the first cardinals from Mexico and Uruguay. This would have increased the number of cardinals to 75, breaking the ceiling of 70 members established by Pope Sixtus V in 1586, but it only reached 74 because Cardinal José María Caro Rodríguez of Chile died before the consistory. John said the increase was necessary to staff church offices properly. Church law had to be waived for the new Cardinal Cicognani to join his brother Gaetano Cicognani, a cardinal since 1953, in the College. Fietta received his cardinal's red biretta from Giovanni Gronchi, President of Italy, on 17 December.
  Giovanni Battista Montini (1897–1978) (Pope Paul VI 1963–1978)
  Giovanni Urbani (1900–1969)
  Paolo Giobbe (1880–1972)
  Giuseppe Fietta (1883–1960)
  Fernando Cento (1883–1973)
  Carlo Chiarlo (1881–1964)
  Amleto Giovanni Cicognani (1883–1973)
  José Garibi y Rivera (1889–1972)
  Antonio María Barbieri, OFM Cap (1892–1979)
  William Godfrey (1889–1963)
  Carlo Confalonieri (1893–1986)
  Richard Cushing (1895–1970)
  Alfonso Castaldo (1890–1966)
  Paul Marie André Richaud (1887–1968)
  John Francis O'Hara (1888–1960)
  José Bueno y Monreal (1904–1987)
  Franz König (1905–2004)
  Julius Döpfner (1913–1976)
  Domenico Tardini (1888–1961)
  Alberto di Jorio (1884–1979)
  Francesco Bracci (1879–1967)
  Francesco Roberti (1889–1977)
  André-Damien-Ferdinand Jullien (1882–1964)
caption: Franz König (1905–2004), made a cardinal on 15 December 1958.
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