OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUL 20, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Palayamkottai, India, presented by Bishop Savarinathan Iruthayaraj in accordance with canon 401, para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.

- Appointed Bishop Thierry Jordan of Pontoise, France, as metropolitan archbishop of Reims (area 6,931, population 598,000, Catholics 584,000, priests 212, permanent deacons 12, religious 398), France. The archbishop-elect was born in Shanghai, China, in 1943, ordained a priest in 1966 and consecrated a bishop in 1987.

- Appointed as members of the Pontifical Commission for the Cultural Patrimony of the Church: Cardinals Christoph Schonborn O.P., archbishop of Vienna, Austria and Francis Eugene George O.M.I., archbishop of Chicago, U.S.A.; Archbishops Csaba Ternyak, secretary of the Congregation for Clergy and Marin Barsic, auxiliary of Split-Makarska, Croatia; Msgr. Giancarlo Santi, director of the national office for ecclesiastical cultural heritage of the Italian Episcopal Conference, Italy; Fr. Heinrich Pfeiffer S.J., director of the "corso superiore" (advanced course) for the cultural patrimony of the Church, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy; Sandro Benedetti, director of the technical office of the Fabric of St. Peter and professor at "La Sapienza" University, Rome, Italy and Giuseppe Basile, director of the Central Institute for Restoration, Rome, Italy.

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