OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, FEB 18, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Cardinal Jozef Tomko, former prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, as his special envoy at the promulgation of the acts of the first plenary council of the Church in Slovenia, due to take place in Ljubljana on May 18, 2002.

On Saturday, February 16, it was made public that he:

- Appointed Msgr. Paolo Urso, of the clergy of Acireale, Italy, vicar general of that diocese, as bishop of Ragusa (area 1,029, population 180,000, Catholics 165,000, priests 108, permanent deacons 8, religious 272), Italy. The bishop-elect was born in Acireale in 1940 and ordained a priest in 1962. He succeeds Bishop Angelo Rizzo, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Msgr. Carlos Garcia Camader, rector of the major seminary of Lima, and Frs. Jose Antonio Eguren Anselmi, episcopal vicar and pastor of the parish of Our Lady of Reconciliation in Lima and Adriano Tomasi Traviglia O.F.M., president of the "Consorcio de Centros Educativos del Peru" and of the "Confederacion Interamericana de Educacion Catolica" and pastoral vicar to the Chinese community in Lima, as auxiliaries of the archdiocese of Lima (area 639, population 2,457,393, Catholics 2,260,801, priests 431, permanent deacons 5, religious 2,151), Peru. Bishop-elect Garcia Camader was born in Lima in 1954 and ordained a priest in 1981. Bishop-elect Eguren Anselmi was born in Lima in 1956 and ordained a priest in 1982. Bishop-elect Tomasi Traviglia in Gardolo di Mezzo-Meano, Italy, in 1939 and ordained a priest in 1964.

- Appointed Fr. Santiago Silva Retamales, rector of the major seminary of Valparaiso (area 4,600, population 1,144,594, Catholics 817,500, priests 196, permanent deacons 35, religious 436), Chile, as auxiliary of the same diocese. The bishop-elect was born in La Calera, Chile, in 1955 and ordained a priest in 1980.

- Appointed Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, apostolic nuncio in Bolivia, as apostolic nuncio in Kazakhstan and Tadjikistan.

- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany, presented by Archbishop Ludwig Averkamp, upon having reached the age limit.

- Fr. Gianfranco Girotti O.F.M. Conv., under-secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, as regent of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature

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