28 Newly Elevated Cardinals

VATICAN CITY — The following are the Roman Catholic clerics elevated to the rank of cardinal Saturday by Pope John Paul II:

Francis Arinze (Nigerian), Giacomo Biffi (Italian), Rosalio Jose Castillo Lara (Venezuelan), Luigi Dadaglio (Italian), Albert Decourtray (French), Andrzej Deskur (Polish), Juan Francisco Fresno Larrain (Chilean), Edouard Gagnon (Canadian), Angel Suquia Goicoechea (Spanish), Henryk Roman Gulbinowicz (Polish), Jean Jerome Hamer (Belgian), Antonio Innocenti (Italian), Bernard Law (American), Simon Lourdusamy (Indian), Myroslav Lubachivsky (Ukrainian), Augustin Mayer (W. German), Miguel Obando y Bravo (Nicaraguan), John J. O’Connor (American), Pietro Pavan (Italian), Silvano Piovanelli (Italian), Paul Poupard (French), Adrianus Simonis (Dutch), Alfons Stickler (Austrian), Josef Tomko (Czechoslovak), Paulos Tzadua (Ethiopian), Louis-Albert Vachon (Canadian), Ricardo Vidal (Filipino), Friedrich Wetter (W. German).