Cardinal Timothy Dolan will lead the opening prayer at the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th US President on 20 January.
The cardinal, who is Archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York, made the announcement during an interview with New York’s WPIX broadcasting station at the close of December.
“The president was kind enough to ask me to do the opening prayer,” Cardinal Dolan said in the interview.
Noting that Trump had also asked him to do the opening prayer during the presidential inauguration of 2017, Dolan then commented that when “he asked me this time, I said, ‘Well I did it eight years ago; I hope this one works’.”
