OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, FEB 24, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Fr. Giuseppe Bausardo, S.D.B., counsellor inspector of the Salesians in Egypt, as apostolic vicar of Alexandria of the Latins (Catholics 9,570, priests 161, religious 1,045), Egypt. The bishop-elect was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1951. He entered the Salesian novitiate in Lebanon in 1965, made his perpetual vows in 1974, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1978.

- Granted the ecclesiastical communion requested by His Beatitude Ignace Pierre VIII, canonically elected patriarch of Antioch of the Syro-Catholics in the Synod of Bishops of the Syro-Catholic Church, held in Charfet, Lebanon, on February 16, 2001. He succeeds His Beatitude Ignace Moussa I Daoud. His Beatitude Ignace Pierre VIII was born in Aleppo, Syria, in 1930, and ordained to the priesthood in 1954. In 1979, he was ordained chorbishop and appointed exarch of Jerusalem by His Beatitude Ignace Antoine II Hayek, patriarch of Antioch of the Syrians. In 1996, he was elected bishop in the Synod of Syrian Bishops.

- Appointed the following as members of the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei": Cardinals Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Jorge Arturo Medina Estevez, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of Sacraments and Louis-Marie Bille, archbishop of Lyon; and Archbishop Julian Herranz, president of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts.

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