OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, FEB 19, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Guy de Kerimel, of the clergy of Aix, as auxiliary bishop of Nice (area 4,283, population 1,018,700, Catholics 814,000, priests 325, permanent deacons 15, religious 545), France. The bishop-elect was born in Meknes, Morocco, in 1953, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1986.

On Saturday, February 17, it was made public that he:

- Appointed Msgr. Domenico Sorrentino, of the clergy of the diocese of Nola, professor of the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Southern Italy and in the service to the Secretariat of State, as prelate of Pompeii (area 12, population 21,800, Catholics 21,300, priests 54, permanent deacons 3, religious 197), Italy, and Pontifical Delegate to the Shrine of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Most Holy Rosary, at the same time raising him to the dignity of archbishop. The archbishop-elect was born in Boscoreale, Italy, in 1948 and ordained to the priesthood in 1972. He succeeds Archbishop Francesco Saverio Toppi, O.F.M. Cap., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same territorial prelature and sanctuary the Holy Father accepted, in accordance with the age limit.

- Appointed Fr. Vartan Kechichian, abbot of the Mechitarists of Venice, as coadjutor of the ordinary for Armenian Catholics of Eastern Europe (Catholics 220,000, priests 8, religious 30), at the same time raising him to the dignity of archbishop. The archbishop-elect was born in Kessab, Syria, in 1933, and ordained to the priesthood in 1959.

- Appointed Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, as a member of the Congregation for Bishops.

- Appointed Bishop Marian Golebiewski of Koszalin-Kolobrzeg, Poland, and Bishop Leo Cornelio of Khandwa, India, as members of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples.
- Appointed the following consultants to the Congregation for the Oriental Churches: Archbishop Lajos Kada, apostolic nuncio; Bishop Walter Kasper, emeritus of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, and secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity; Archimandrite Emiliano Fabbricatore, O.S.B.I., exarch of the territorial abbey of Santa Maria of Grottaferrata, Italy; Msgr. Hanna G. Alwan, prelate auditor of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota; Frs. Cyril Vasil, S.J., dean of the Faculty of Canon Law of the Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome, Natale Loda, professor of the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome, David Maria Jaeger, O.F.M., professor of the Pontifical Athenaeum Antonianum, Rome, Antonio Zani, professor at the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Northern Italy, Milan, and the Seminary of Brescia, Italy, Boris Gudziak, rector of the Academy of Lviv, Ukraine, Thom Sicking, S.J., professor of St. Joseph's University in Beirut, Lebanon, Maciej Bielawski, O.S.B., professor of the Pontifical Athenaeum of St. Anselm, Rome, Johannes Hoffmann, professor of the University of Regensburg, Germany; Msgr. Osvaldo Raineri, official of the Vatican Apostolic Library and professor of the Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome; and Prof. Herman Teule, editor of "Moyen Orient" magazine and director of the Institute of Research on the Christian Orient, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

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