OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JAN 14, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Archbishop Javier Lozano Barragan, president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Ministry, as his special envoy to the Tenth World Day of the Sick, to be held at Vailankanni, India, on February 11, 2002.

On Saturday, January 12, it was made public that he appointed:

- Archbishop Giovanni d'Aniello as apostolic nuncio in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Fr. Klemens Stock S.J., pro-dean of the faculty for ancient oriental studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, as secretary of the Pontifical Biblical Commission.
- As members of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences: Msgr. Guillermo Duran and Agostino Borromeo.
- As members of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses: Archbishop Dominik Hrusovsky. Archbishop-bishops: Patabendige Don Albert Malcolm Ranjith, emeritus of Ratnapura, Sri Lanka, assistant secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples; Stephen Fumio Hamao, emeritus of Yokohama, Japan, president of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples; Javier Lozano Barragan of Zacatecas, Mexico, president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Ministry, and Bishop Marc Ouellet, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

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