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Pope Leo to return to practice of ‘imposing’ pallium on new archbishops

Pope Leo to return to practice of ‘imposing’ pallium on new archbishops

Thursday, June 12, 2025
Pope Leo XIV will revive a tradition begun by St. John Paul II in 1983 by personally placing a pallium around the shoulders of recently named archbishops. The post Pope Leo to return to practice of ‘imposing’ pallium on new archbishops first appeared on OSV News.