OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAY 19, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father:
- Accepted the resignation of Bishop Urbano Jose Allgayer from the pastoral care of the diocese of Passo Fundo, Brazil, upon his having reached the age limit. He is succeeded by Coadjutor Bishop Pedro Ercilio Simon.

- Appointed Fr. Guilherme Antonio Werlang, M.S.F. as bishop of Ipameri (area 22,947, population 251,492, Catholics 206,350, priests, 14, religious 58), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Sao Carlos, Brazil in 1950, was ordained a priest in 1979 and since 1991 has been pastor of "Nossa Senhora do Rosario."

- Appointed as members of the Committee of the Presidency of the Pontifical Council for the Family: Cardinals Ricardo J. Vidal, archbishop of Cebu, Philippines and Bernard Francis Law, archbishop of Boston, USA; Archbishops Marian Jaworski of Lviv of the Latins, Ukraine; Carlo Caffarra of Ferrara-Comacchio, Italy; Nicholas Cheong Jin-Suk of Seoul, Korea; Bishops Bechara Rai of Jbeil Byblos of the Maronites, Lebanon and Youssef Ibrahim Sarraf of Cairo of the Chaldeans, Egypt.

- Appointed as members of the Pontifical Council for the Family: Aurelio and Gloria Cadavid, Colombia; Leonardo and Martha Lorena Casco of the Pro-Life Committee of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Jerry and Gwen Coniker of the Apostolate for Family Consacration, Bloomingdale, USA; Giovanni and Annamaria Stirati of the Neo-Catechumen Communities, Rome, Italy.

- Appointed as consultors of the Pontifical Council for the Family: Bishop Angelo Scola, emeritus of Grosseto and rector of the Pontifical Lateran University; Fr. Abelardo Lobato O.P., dean of the Faculty of Theology of Lugano, Switzerland; Maria Teresa Da Costa Macedo, Lisbon, Portugal; Prof. Francesco D'Agostino, Rome, Italy; Marina Fara, director of the "Bunavestire" center, Bucharest, Romania; Dr. David F. Forte, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, USA; Alberto and Anna Friso of the New Families section of the Focolare Movement, Grottaferrata, Italy; Prof. Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, USA; Lydia Jimenez, Director of the Institute for the Family, Madrid, Spain; Dr. Janne Haaland Matlary, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Oslo, Norway; Prof. Alicia Romo Roman, rector of Gabriela Mistral University, Santiago, Chile; Prof. Ina Siviglia, lecturer in theological anthropology, Palermo, Italy.

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