OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, NOV 22, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Fr. Jorge Luis Lona, pastor of the cathedral of San Juan de Cuyo, Argentina, and episcopal vicar for education, as coadjutor bishop of San Luis (area 70,000, population 345,000, Catholics 322,000, priests 64, religious 91), Argentina. The bishop-elect was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1935 and ordained a priest in 1979.

- Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, substitute for General Affairs of the Secretariat of State, as consultor of the Congregation for Bishops.

- Archbishops Ivan Dias of Bombay, India, and William Joseph Levada of San Francisco, U.S.A., as members of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

- Msgr. Brian Edwin Ferme and Fr. Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru as judges of the ecclesiastic tribunal of Vatican City State.

- Cardinals Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Carlo Maria Martini S.J., archbishop of Milan, as honorary academicians of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

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