OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, APRIL 22, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed the following as members of the Pontifical Council of Justice and Peace: Archbishops George Pell of Sydney, Australia, and Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo; Bishops Amedee Grap of Chur, Switzerland, Reinhard Marx of Trier, Germany, Olivier de Berrauger of Saint-Denis, France, Leon Tharmaraj of Kottar, India, and Antonio Ledesma of Ipil, the Phillipines; Silvio Marcus Helmons of Belgium, Tomas Raga Gil of Spain, Raymond Ranjeva of Madagascar, Onno Ruding of the Netherlands, Andrea Riccardi of Italy, Maria E. Diaz de Pfennich of Mexico, and Mary Yuen Mee-Yin of Hong Kong.

On Saturday April 20, it was made public that the Holy Father erected the apostolic exarchate for the Catholic Greek-Melkites living in Argentina with its see in Cordoba. He also appointed Fr. Georges Haddad S.M.S.P. as first exarch of the newly-erected exarchate, assigning him the titular see of Mira of the Greek-Melkites. The bishop-elect was born in 1957 in Beirut, Lebanon and was ordained a priest in 1983.

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