OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

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

- Appointed Fr. Rene-Marie Ehuzu, C.J.M., pastor of the Cathedral of Cotonou, Benin, as Bishop of Aboemy (area 4,724, population 600,000, Catholics 225,000, priests 48, religious 69), Benin. The bishop-elect was born in 1944 in Cotonou, Benin and was ordained a priest in 1972. He succeeds Bishop Lucien Monsi-Agboka whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Msgr. Pierre Nguyen Van Tot, charge d'affaires of the nunciature in Benin and Togo, as apostolic nuncio in the same countries, with the dignity of archbishop. The archbishop-elect was born in 1949 in Thu dau mot, Vietnam and was ordained a priest in 1974.

On Saturday November 23, it was made public that the Holy Father:
- Appointed Archbishop Michael Louis Fitzgerald, president of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, as a member of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

- Appointed Professor Krzysztof Skubiszewski of Poland as an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of the Social Sciences.

- Appointed Giuseppina Roselli, "scriptor" of the Vatican Secret Archives, as archivist.

- Appointed Bishop Vladimir Filo, auxiliary of Bratislava-Trnava, Slovakia, as coadjutor bishop of Roznava (population 7,000, population 342,159, Catholics 173,644, priests 1120, religious 155, permanent deacons 2), Slovakia.

- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Salzburg, Austria presented by Archbishop Georg Eder, in accordance with Canon 401, para. 2, of the Code of Canon Law.

- Appointed Fr. Cornelius Schilder, M.H.M., provincial of the Mill Hill Missionaries for Uganda and Kenya, as bishop of Ngong (area 39,847, population 942,395, Catholics 72,960, priests 61, religious 122), Kenya. The bishop-elect was born in 1941 in Westwoud, Holland and was ordained a priest in 1968. He succeeds Bishop Colin Cameron Davies, M.H.M., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Bishop Jose Paala Salazar, O.P., of the Prelature of Batanes, the Philippines, as auxiliary of the diocese of Butuan (area 11,555, population 1,199,251, Catholics 991,497, priests 91, religious 134), the Philippines.

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