OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, NOV 12, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Archbishop Lorenzo Baldisseri, apostolic nuncio in India and Nepal, as apostolic nuncio in Brazil.

- Appointed Msgr. Antonios Aziz Mina, official of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, as bureau chief of the same congregation.

- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the eparchy of Mukacheve of the Byzantine Rite, presented by Bishop Ivan Semedi, in accordance with Canon 210, para. 2, of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.

- Accepted the resignation from the office of auxiliary bishop of the eparchy of Mukacheve of the Byzantine Rite, presented by Bishop Ivan Marghitych, in accordance with Canon 210, para. 2, of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.

- Appointed Fr. Milan Sasik, C.M., as apostolic administrator "ad nutum Sanctae Sedis" of the eparchy of Mukacheve, raising him to the dignity of bishop. The bishop-elect was born in 1952 in Lechina, Slovakia and was ordained a priest in 1976.

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AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, NOV 12, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

- Cardinal Ignace Moussa I Daoud, prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.

- Six prelates from the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (Eastern Region II) on their "ad limina" visit:

- Bishop Anselmo Muller, M.S.F., of Januaria.

- Bishop Luiz Mancilha Vilela, SS.CC., of Cachoeiro de Itapemirim.

- Bishop Leonardo de Miranda Pereira of Paracatu.

- Bishop Joao Bosco Oliver de Faria of Patos de Minas.

- Bishop Werner Franz Siebenbrock, S.V.D., of Governador Valadares.

- Bishop Paulo Sergio Machado of Ituiutaba.

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