OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAY 15, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Included the following cardinals among the members of the Roman Congregations:
- Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: Cardinals Ignace Moussa I Daoud, Giovanni Battista Re, Ivan Dias, Desmond Connell, Zenon Grocholewski, and Walter Kasper.
- Congregation for the Oriental Churches: Cardinals Varkey Vithayathil, Lubomyr Husar, Karl Lehmann, Agostino Cacciavillan, and Walter Kasper.
- Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of Sacraments: Cardinals Ivan Dias, Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, Claudio Hummes, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Francois Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan, Jose Saraiva Martins, and Mario Francesco Pompedda.
- Congregation for the Causes of Saints: Cardinals Janis Pujats, Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, and Jorge Maria Mejia.
- Congregation for Bishops: Cardinals Desmond Connell, Louis-Marie Bille, Karl Lehmann, Agostino Cacciavillan, Zenon Grocholewski, and Jose Saraiva Martins.
- Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples: Cardinals Wilfrid Fox Napier, Bernard Agre, Ignacio Antonio Velsco Garcia, Francois Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan, and Agostino Cacciavillan.
- Congregation for Clergy: Cardinals Marian Jaworski, Johannes Joachim Degenhardt, Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Severino Poletto, Sergio Sebastiani, and Crescenzio Sepe.
- Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life: Cardinals Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa, Wilfrid Fox Napier, and Jorge Mario Bergoglio.
- Congregation for Catholic Education: Cardinals Christoph Schonborn, Johannes Joachim Degenhardt, Ivan Diaz, Pedro Rubiano Saenz, Audrys Juozas Backis, and Jose da Cruz Policarpo.
- Appointed Bishop Jorge Enrique Jimenez Carvajal of Zipaquira, Colombia, president of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM), as counsellor of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.

- Appointed Msgr. Thomas John Rodi, vicar general of the archdiocese of New Orleans, U.S.A., as bishop of Biloxi (area 24,992, population 737,373, Catholics 67,862, priests 94, permanent deacons 19, religious 117), U.S.A. He succeeds Bishop Joseph Lawson Howze, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, in accordance with the age limit. The bishop-elect was born in New Orleans in 1949 and ordained to the priesthood in 1978.

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