- Archbishop Raymundo Damasceno Assis of Aparecida, Brazil.
- Archbishop Roland Minnerath of Dijon, France.
- Archbishop Wladislaw Ziolek of Lodz, Poland.
- Archbishop Joseph Augustine Charanakunnel of Raipur, India.
- Archbishop Pietro Coccia of Pesaro, Italy.
- Archbishop Marie Daniel Dadiet of Korhogo, Ivory Coast.
- Archbishop Jean-Charles Descubes of Rouen, France.
- Archbishop Marian Golebiewski of Wroclaw, Poland.
- Archbishop Luiz Manchila Vilela, SS.CC., of Vitoria, Brazil.
- Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin, Ireland
- Archbishop Aldo Di Cillo Pagotto, S.S.S., of Paraiba, Brazil.
- Archbishop Ramon C. Arguelles of Lipa, the Philippines.
- Archbishop Moacyr Jose Vitti, C.S.S., of Curitiba, Brazil.
- Archbishop Robert Christopher Ndlovu of Harare, Zimbabwe.
- Archbishop Bruno Gamberini of Campinas, Brazil.
- Archbishop Milton Antonio Dos Santos, S.D.B., of Cuiaba, Brazil.
In addition to the forty-four archbishops, the following eight will received the pallium in their respective metropolitan sees: Archbishops Aloysius Sudarso, S.C.I., of Palembang, Indonesia; Hubert Constant, O.M.I., of Cap-Haitien, Haiti; Evarist Pinto of Karachi, Pakistan; Nicolaus Adi Septura, M.S.C., of Merauke, Indonesia: Jose de Queiros Alves, C.SS.R., of Huambo, Angola; Anthony Anandarayar of Pondicherry and Cuddalore, India; Maria Callist Soosa Pakiam of Trivandrum of the Latins, India and Lluis Martinez Sistach of Barcelona, Spain.