OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, OCT 14, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral governing of the apostolic vicariate of San Jose in Mindoro, the Philippines, presented by Bishop Vincente C. Manuel, S.V.D:, in conformity with Canon 401, para 2, of the Code of Canon Law.

- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral governing of the archdiocese of Singapore presented by Archbishop Gregory Yong Sooi Ngean upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed as consultors of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life: For the Section of Religious Institutes: Bishop Jacques Berthelet of Saint-Jean-Longueil, Canada, and Fathers Filippo Iannone, O.Carm., vicar general of the archdiocese of Naples, Italy, and Alberto Perlasca of the clergy of the diocese of Como, Italy; For the section on Secular Institutes: Lucia Alvear of Colombia; Dora Castanetto of Italy; Lydia Jimenez of Spain; Mechthild Annegret Laumann of Germany; Estela La Vacara of Argentina; Claude-Esther Martel of France; Jaccy Privett of Great Britain and Anna Rastawicka of Poland.

- Appointed Celso Morga Iruzubieta, official of the Congregation for the Clergy, as bureau chief of the same congregation.

- Appointed as members of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints: Cardinal Francis Stafford and Bishops Emilio Eid, titular bishop of Sarepta of the Maronites and Salvatore Fisichella, auxiliary of Rome.

- Elevated Fr. Henry Theopilus Howaniec, O.F.M., apostolic administrator of Almaty, Kazakistan, to the dignity of bishop, assigning him the titular see of Acolla. The bishop-elect was born in 1931 in Chicago, U.S.A., took his perpetual vows in the Order of Friars Minor in 1952 and was ordained a priest in 1956.

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