OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, DEC 23, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Msgr. George Cosmas Zumaire Lungo, apostolic administrator of Chipata, as bishop of this same diocese (area 69,106, population 1,480,967, Catholics 274,007, priests 46, religious 179), Zambia. The bishop elect was born in Zumaire (Zambia) in 1960 and was ordained priest in 1985.

On Saturday, December 21, it was made public that the Holy Father:
- Appointed Fr. Melchor Sanchez de Toca y Alameda, as bureau chief for the Pontifical Council for Culture.

- Appointed Bishop Kevin McDonald of Northampton, Great Britain, as member of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue.

- Appointed the following prelates as members of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples: Archbishop Francesco Monterisi, secretary of the Congregation for Bishops; Archbishop Pier Luigi Celata, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue and Bishop Giampaolo Crepaldi, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

- Appointed the following prelates as members of the Committee of the Presidency of the Pontifical Council for the Family: Patriarch Angelo Scola of Venice; Archbishop George Pell of Sydney, Australia; Archbishop Vingt-Trois of Tours, France and Bishop Anders Arborelius of Stockholm, Sweden.

- Apppointed the following as members of the Pontifical Council for the Family: Francisco and Geraldine Padilla of the Philippines; Prof. Michael M. Waldstein and Susie Burnham Waldstein of Austria.

- Appointed the following as consultors of the same Pontifical Council: Msgr. Renzo Bonetti of the diocese of Verona, Italy; Fr. David Maria A. Jaeger, O.F.M., of the Custody of the Holy Land; Prof. Carl Albert Anderson, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, U.S.A.; Prof. Pedro Morande Court, dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Catholic Pontifical University of Chile; Prof. Dina Nerozzi Frajese, lecturer at the University of Tor Vergata, Rome; Timothy T. O'Donnell, president of Christendom College, U.S.A and Antonia Willemsen, secretary of 'Aid to the Suffering Church', Germany.

- Gave his consent to the election, canonically carried out by the Synod of Bishops of the Coptic Catholic Church which met on December 19 in Cairo, Egypt, of Msgr. Antonios Aziz Mina, bureau chief of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, as auxiliary bishop of the Patriarchate of Alexandria of the Coptic Catholics [Catholics: 91,500; priests: 120; religious: 389], Egypt. The bishop-elect was born in Minya, Egypt in 1955 and was ordained a priest in 1978.

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