OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAR 5, 2001, (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Cardinal Paul Poupard, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, as special envoy to the closing celebrations of the first national Eucharistic Congress of the Ivory Coast, to take place in Abidjan, on April 29.

On Saturday, March 3, it was made public that the Holy Father:

- Accepted the resignation of Cardinal Edward Cassidy, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, and appointed Cardinal Walter Kasper, secretary of the same dicastery, as president.

- Appointed Fr. Marc Ouellet, of the Canadian Province of the Company of Priests of the Holy Surplice, and professor at the John Paul II Institute of the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome, as secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, at the same time elevating him to the dignity of bishop. The bishop-elect was born in Lamotte, Canada, in 1944, and ordained to the priesthood in 1968.

- Appointed Msgr. Giampaolo Crepaldi, under-secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, as secretary of the same dicastery, at the same time elevating him to the dignity of bishop. The bishop-elect was born in Pettorazza, Italy in 1947, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1971.

- Accepted the resignation as auxiliary in the archdiocese of Guayaquil, Ecuador, of Bishop Olindo Natale Spagnolo Martellozzo, M.C.C.I., in conformity with the age limit.

- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Anchorage, U.S.A., of Archbishop Francis Thomas Hurley, in conformity with canon 401, para. 2, of the Code of Canon Law. He is succeeded by Coadjutor Archbishop Roger Lawrence Schwietz, O.M.I.

- Appointed Msgr. Djura Dzudzar, bureau chief of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, as auxiliary of the eparch of Mukacheve (area 12,800, population 1,288,000, Catholics 320,000, priests 155, religious 17) in Transcarpathia, Ukraine, at the same time elevating him to the dignity of bishop. The bishop-elect was born in Diurdzhovo, Yugoslavia, in 1954, and ordained to the priesthood in 1980.

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