OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, FEB 25, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Bishop Luis Teodorico Stockler of Goya, Argentina, as bishop of Quilmes (area 518, population 1,200,000, Catholics 1,00,000, priests 135, permanent deacons 81, religious 300), Argentina.

- Gave his consent to the canonical election by the Synod of Bishops of the Church of Antioch of the Syrians meeting at Charfet, Lebanon, from September 11 to 15, 2001, of Chorbishop Pierre Melki as patriarchal exarch of the Syrian faithful resident in Jerusalem, Palestine and Jordan.

- Appointed as members of the Pontifical Council for the Laity: Cardinals: Ivan Dias, archbishop of Bombay, India, and Claudio Hummes O.F.M., archbishop of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Archbishops Robert Sarah, emeritus of Conakry, Guinea, and secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples; Josip Bozanic of Zagreb, Croatia, and Francisco Javier Martinez Fernandez of Cordoba, Spain. Bishop Francesco Lambiasi of Anagni-Alatri and assistant ecclesiastic general at Italian Catholic Action. Carl Anderson, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, U.S.A.; Said. A. Azer, Egypt; Tanios Chahwan, leader of youth pastoral care in the Maronite Patriarchate, Lebanon; Carlos Corsi, Colombia; Maria Eugenia Diaz de Pfennich president of the World Union of Catholic Female Organizations, Mexico; Vladimir Durikovic, member of the movement of Christian families, Slovakia; Crescencia Gabijan Cabilao, Philippines; Christiana Habsburg-Lothringen, Austria; Priscilla Kuye, vice-president of the National Council of the Laity, Nigeria; Yuk Fai Lai, vice-president of the Central Committee of Catholic laity, Hong Kong; Pedro Morais Vieira, member of the secretariat of the Episcopal Commission for the Laity and member of parliament, Angola; Allan Panozza, president of the International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services, Australia; Nicoletta Pisa, president of the International Coordination of Young Catholic Labor, G.B.; Antoinette Prudence, Republic of Mauritius; Jose Maria Riera I Mas, president of the Community of Christian Life, Spain; Jacqueline Sfeir, dean of the faculty of education of the University of Bethlehem; Catherine Soublin, France, and Alexei Youdine, teacher at the St. Thomas Aquinas theological college in Moscow, Russia.

- Appointed as consultors of the Pontifical Council for the Laity: Bishop Mounged El-Hachem of Baalbek - Deir El-Ahmar of the Maronites, Lebanon. Frs. Libero Gerosa, rector of the faculty of theology in Lugano, Switzerland; Jean Mbarga, Cameroon, and Luis Felipe Navarro of the clergy of the prelature of Opus Dei, Spain. Paola Bignardi, president of Italian Catholic Action; Emanuela Di Nunzio, Italy; Luis Fernando Figari, of the movement for Christian Life, Peru; Zbigniew Nosowski, Poland; Jesus Perez Saturnino, Spain, and David Schindler, U.S.A.

On Saturday, February 23, it was made public that he appointed:

- Msgr. Gino Reali of the clergy of Spoleto-Norcia, vicar general of that archdiocese, as bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina (area 2,000, population 260,000, Catholics 254,000, priests 193, permanent deacons 6, religious 1,162), Italy. The bishop-elect was born in Monteleone di Spoleto, Italy, in 1948 and ordained a priest in 1971.

- Fr. Vincenzo Battaglia O.F.M., professor of theology at the Pontifical Antonianum Athenaeum, as president of the International Pontifical Marian Academy.

- Bishop Joseph Vu Duy Thong, auxiliary of Thanh-Pho Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, as a member of the Pontifical Council for Culture.

- As members of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Ministry: Archbishops Carlos Amigo Vallejo O.F.M., of Seville, Spain; Wladyslaw Ziolek of Lodz, Poland; Jose Dimas Cedeno Delgado of Panama, Panama. Bishops Serafim de Sousa Ferreira e Silva of Leiria-Fatima, Portugal; Thumma Bala of Warangal, India; Peter Joseph Connors of Ballarat, Australia; Joseph Leo Charron C.PP.S., of Des Moines, U.S.A.; Jacques Perrier of Tarbes et Lourdes, France; Jacinto Guerrero Torres of Tlaxcala, Mexico; James Mathew Wingle of Yarmouth, Canada. Sisters Maria del Camino Agos Munarriz, superior general of the Hospiatalier Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Rome, and Serafina Dalla Porta, superior general of the Daughters of St. Camillus, Grottaferrata, Italy.

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