OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, OCT 1, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Archbishop Robert Sarah of Conakry, Guinea, as secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples; Bishop Patabendige Don Albert Malcom Ranjith of Ratnapura, Sri Lanka, as adjunct secretary of the same Congregation, at the same time elevating him to the dignity of archbishop; and Fr. Massimo Cenci, P.I.M.E., current spiritual director of the Pontifical Urban College of Propaganda Fide, as under-secretary of the same dicastery.

- As consultors of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples: Dr. Francesco Silvano, secretary general of Bambino Gesu Hospital, Italy; Dr. Angelo Balducci, supervisor of the Public Works of Lazio, Italy; and Dr. Pasquale De Lise, section president of the State Council, Italy.

On Saturday, September 29, the Holy Father appointed:

- Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, S.J., archbishop of Milan, as his special envoy to the celebration of the 9th centenary of the death of St. Bruno, founder of the Carthusians, which will take place in Serra San Bruno, Italy, on October 6.

- As ordinary members of the Pontifical Academy for Life: A.J.Luke Gormally, professor of Philosophy and director of the Linacre Center for Health Care Ethics, England; Mounir Abdel Messih Shehata Farag, professor of Medicine and Surgery, director of the St. Joseph Institute for the Family, and of the Pro-life and Pro-family Bioethics Center in Egypt; Fr. Andrzej Szostek, M.I.C., professor of Philosophy and Theology at the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland; John Mitchell Finnis, professor of Law and Legal Philosophy at Oxford University, England, and Notre Dame University, Indiana, U.S.A.; Msgr. Michel Schooyans, professor emeritus at the Catholic University of Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium.

- As consultors of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Ministry: Frs. Juvenal Ilunga Muya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, professor at the Pontifical University Urbanianum, Rome; Jacques Simpore, M.I., professor at the University of Ouagadoudou, Burkina Faso; Tony Anatrella, Paris, France; Edward Philips, M.M., Nairobi, Kenya; Mario Bizzotto, M.I., professor at the Institute of Pastoral Health Care Theology Camillianum, Rome; Carlo Casalone, S.J., professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome; Francisco Cristobal Fernandez Sanchez, professor at the Pontifical University Urbanianum, Rome; Jerome Haladus, O.P., professor at the Pontifical University St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome; and Dr. Francis Sullivan, executive director of the Australian Catholic Health Care Association, Red Hill Act, Australia; Dr. Giorgio Filibeck, study assistant at the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace; Dr. Salvino Leone, professor at the Sicilian Institute of Bioethics and at the LUMSA, St. Silvia section, Palermo, Italy; Dr. Fiorenza Deriu Bagnato, Rome; Maria Inez Linhares de Carvalho, president of the Association of Catholic Doctors, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Dr. Thomas Gracious, of the Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India; Prof. Pierluigi Zucchi, director of the Institute for the Study and Therapy of Pain, Florence, Italy; Dr. Volodymyr Semeniv, Lviv, Ukraine.

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