Pope Leo to Return to Practice of 'Imposing' Pallium on New Archbishops - Biweekly Newspaper for the Diocese of Richmond %

Leo XIV to Personally Bestow Palliums in Return to Historic Ritual: A Subtle but Symbolic Shift in Papal Style - ZENIT

(ZENIT News / Rome, 06.14.2025).- When Pope Leo XIV steps into the heart of St. Peter’s Basilica on June 29, the solemn feast of Saints Peter and Paul, he will not only celebrate the Eucharist but also revive a gesture long associated with direct papal authority: the personal imposition of the pallium upon new metropolitan archbishops. This decision marks a return to a  custom, quietly set aside under Pope Francis, who chose instead to send pall…

Pope Leo to return to practice of 'imposing' pallium on new archbishops - Biweekly Newspaper for the Diocese of Richmond %

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — 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. Archbishop Murray Chatlain of Keewatin-Le Pas, Manitoba, wears his pallium after receiving it from Pope Francis during Mass in 2013. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) The pallium, a 3-inch-wide woolen band with 14-inch strips hanging down the front and the back, is a liturgical vest…