OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, APR 24, 2003 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed the following people as members of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum": Fr. Massimo Cenci, P.I.M.E., undersecretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples; Msgr. Frank J. Dewane, undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace; Fr. Salvador Lopez Mora of "Caritas" in Mexico; Fr. Michael Yeung of "Caritas" in Hong Kong; Jose Sanchez Faba, president of "Caritas" in Spain.

- Appointed Fr. Ladislav Hucko, spiritual director of the Major Seminary in Kosice, Slovakia, as apostolic eparch for Catholics of the Byzantine rite resident in the Czech Republic (Catholics 250,000, priests 10, religious 21). The eparchial bishop-elect was born in 1948 in Presov, Slovakia and was ordained a priest in 1996. The Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the same apostolic eparchy presented by Bishop Ivan Ljavinec upon having reached the age limit.

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