OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, NOV 30, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Accepted the request to be dispensed from the office of the Dean of the College of Cardinals and from the title of suburbicarian Church of Ostia presented by Cardinal Bernardin Gantin. The cardinal will retain the title of the suburbicarian Church of Palestrina.

- Approved the election by the cardinals of the Order of Bishops of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, of the title of the suburbicarian Church of Velletri-Segni, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, as dean of the College of Cardinals, and of Cardinal Angelo Sodano, of the title of the suburbicarian Church of Albano, secretary of State, as vice-dean of the same college.

- Appointed Fr. Joseph Oudeman, O.F.M. Cap., assistant pastor of Wynnum and chaplain of the Dutch community of the archdiocese of Brisbane, Australia as auxiliary of the same archdiocese (population 65,000, population 2,255,100, Catholics 550,630, priests 258, permanent deacons 1, religious 1037). The bishop-elect was born in Brede, Holland in 1942 and was ordained a priest 1966.

- Appointed Cardinals Camillo Ruini, vicar general for the diocese of Rome, and Jan Pieter Schotte, C.I.C.M., secretary general of the Synod of Bishops and president of the Labor Office of the Apostolic See, as members of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See.

- Appointed Msgr. Pietro Parolin, nunciature councillor of the Section for Relations with States of the Secretariat of State, as undersecretary of the same section.

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