OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, NOV 8, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Bishop Charles Michael Jarrell of Houma-Thibodaux, U.S.A., as bishop of Lafayette (area 14,956, population 546,000, Catholics 353,861, priests 194, permanent deacons 74, religious 244), U.S.A. He will succeed Bishop Edward Joseph O'Donnnell whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted in accordance with Canon 401, para. 2, of the Code of Canon Law.

- Appointed Bishop Antonio Juan Baseotto, C.RR.S., of Anatuya, Argentina, as military ordinary for Argentina.
- Appointed the following prelates as members of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity: Cardinals Varkey Vithayathil, major archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly of the Syro-Malabars, India; Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, archbishop of Westminster, England; Karl Lehmann, bishop of Mainz, Germany; Crescenzio Sepe, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples: Archbishops Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson of Cape Coast, Ghana; Guiseppe Chiaretti of Perugia-Citta della Pieve, Italy; Paul Nabil Sayah of Haifa and the Holy Land of the Maronites, Israel; Josaphat Louis Lebulu of Arusha, Tanzania; Stanislav Hocevar of Belgrade, Yugoslavia: Bishops Joao Oneres Marchiori of Lages, Brazil; Julio Cesar Teran Dutari, auxiliary of Quito, Ecuador; Kurt Koch of Basle, Switzerland; Cyprien Mbuka of Boma, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The Holy Father appointed the following as consultants of the same pontifical council: Archbishop Antonio Maria Veglio, secretary of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches; Abbot Emiliano Fabbricatore, O.S.B.I., of St. Mary of Grottaferrata, Italy; Archimandrite Ignace Dick, vicar general (protosyncellus) of Alep of the Greek Melkites, Syria; Frs. Barthelemy Adoukonou, secretary general of the Episcopal Conference of Francophone West Africa, Ivory Coast; Gosbert Byamungu, professor of the Ecumenical University Institute of Bossey, Switzerland; William Henn, O.F.M. Cap., professor of the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome; Angelo Maffeis, professor of the Diocesan Seminary of Brescia, Italy; Gerhard Wicks, S.J., professor emeritus of the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome: Professors Eva-Maria Faber of the "Theologische Hochschule" of Chur, Switzerland; Barbara Hallensleben of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland; Wolfgang Thonissen, director of the "Johan-Adam-Mohler Institute fur Okumenik" of Paderborn, Germany.

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