OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAY 6, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Francesco Buranelli, regent of the Pontifical Monuments, Museums and Galleries, as director general of the same body.

On Saturday, May 4, it was made public that he:

- Appointed Bishop Emilio Z. Marquez of Gumaca, Philippines, as coadjutor bishop of Lucena (area 2,334, population 867,639, Catholics 780,875, priests 77, religious 170), Philippines.

- Appointed as consultors at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: Msgr. Brian Edwin Ferme, dean of the Faculty of Canon Law at the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome. Frs. Gianfranco Girotti O.F.M. Conv., regent of the Apostolic Penitentiary; Nicola Bux, professor of ecclesiology and ecumenism at the Ecumenical Theological Institute of Bari, Italy; Enrico Dal Covolo S.D.B., professor of patrology and ancient Christian literature at the Pontifical Salesian University, Rome; Klemens Stock S.J., secretary of the Pontifical Biblical Commission; Cyril Vasil S.J., dean of the Faculty of Eastern Canon Law of the Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome.

- Made the following provisions with regard to the Catholic Church of Latin Rite in Ukraine:
- Appointed Bishop Maksymilian Dubrawski O.F.M., auxiliary of Kamyanets-Podilskyi of the Latins (area 277,700, population 24,000,000, Catholics 300,000, priests 150, religious 240), Ukraine, as bishop of the same diocese. He succeeds Bishop Jan Olszanski M.I.C., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
- Erected the new diocese of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia, Ukraine, with territory taken from the dioceses of Kyiv-Zhytomir and Kamyanets-Podilskyi. He appointed Bishop Stanislaw Padewski O.F.M. Cap., auxiliary of Lviv of the Latins, Ukraine, as bishop of the new diocese.
- Erected the new diocese of Odessa-Simferopol, Ukraine, with territory taken from the diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi. He appointed Msgr. Bronishaw Bernacki, vicar general of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, as bishop of the new diocese. The bishop elect was born in Murafa, Ukraine, in 1944 and ordained a priest in 1972.
- Appointed Msgr. Marian Buczek, chancellor of the metropolitan curia of Lviv of the Latins (area 68,000, population 5,800,000, Catholics 170,000, priests 122, permanent deacons 1, religious 176), Ukraine, and Fr. Leon Maly, prefect of the major seminary of Lviv of the Latins, as auxiliaries of the same metropolitan archdiocese. Bishop-elect Buczek was born Cieszanow, Poland, in 1953 and ordained a priest in 1979. Bishop-elect Maly was born in Bar, Ukraine, in 1958 and ordained a priest in 1984.

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