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In an official announcement on 9 July, Pope Francis declared the Right Reverend Datuk Seri Sebastian Francis, the Titular Roman Catholic Bishop of Penang, as Malaysia’s second Roman Catholic cardinal from Penang.

The late Anthony Soter Fernandez, the former Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur, served as Bishop of Penang from 1977 to 1983. He passed at age 88 in 2020.