Monday, May 31, 1999

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS


VATICAN CITY, MAY 29, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Accepted the resignation of Bishop Raimundo Revoredo Ruiz C.M., from the pastoral care of the territorial prelature of Juli, Peru, in conformity with canon 401, para. 2 of the C.I.C.

- Appointed Frs. Michel Christian Cartateguy S.M.A., vicar general of the diocese of Niamey, Niger and Ambroise Ouedraogo of the clergy of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, "fidei donum" missionary in Niger, as auxiliaries of the diocese of Niamey (area 1,200,000, population 10,000,000, Catholics 17,310, priests 41, religious 136), Niger. Bishop-elect Cartateguy was born in Hasparren, France in 1951 and was ordained a priest in 1979. Bishop-elect Ouedraogo was born in Kossodo, Burkina Faso in 1948 and ordained a priest in 1979.

- Appointed as members of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of Sacraments: Cardinals Michael Michai Kitbunchu, archbishop of Bangkok, Thailand; Miguel Obando Bravo S.D.B., archbishop of Managua, Nicaragua; Alexandre Jose Maria dos Santos O.F.M, archbishop of Maputo, Mozambique; John Baptist Wu Cheng-chung, bishop of Hong Kong, China and Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic, archbishop of Toronto, Canada; Archbishops Franco Brambilla, apostolic nuncio; Francois Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace; Ivan Dias of Bombay, India; Justin Francis Rigali of St. Louis, U.S.A.; Jose Saraiva Martins C.M.F., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints; Agustin Garcia-Gasco Vicente of Valencia, Spain; Ramon Ovidio Perez Morales of Maracaibo, Venezuela; Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne of Lima, Peru; Claudio Hummes O.F.M., of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Franc Rode C.M., of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Jorge Mario Bergoglio S.J., of Buenos Aires and Josip Bozanic of Zagreb, Croatia; Bishops Albert-Marie de Monleon O.P., of Pamiers, France; Terence John Brain of Salford, Great Britain; Kevin Michael Manning of Parramatta, Australia and Philip Boyce O.C.D., of Raphoe, Ireland.

- Appointed as members of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications: Archbishops Romeo Panciroli M.C.C.I., apostolic nuncio; Fernand Frank of Luxembourg; Roland Aboujaoude, auxiliary of Antioch of the Maronites, Lebanon; George Yod Phimphisan C.SS.R., of Udon Thani, Thailand; Jose Sanchez Gonzalez of Siguenza-Guadalajara, Spain and Alfred Kipkoech Arap Rotich, military ordinary, Kenya.

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