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The rise of Bishop Américo Aguiar, the young auxiliary bishop in Lisbon who was just named to the College of Cardinals…

In an unusual move, Pope Francis on Sunday named a young auxiliary bishop of the Patriarchate of Lisbon to the College of Cardinals. The patriarch — Lisbon’s archbishop — is usually made a cardinal, both by tradition and according to Clement XII’s 1737 bull Inter praecipuas apostolici ministerii which stipulates that he should be elevated in the first consistory after his nomination.