OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUN 7, 2003 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick, archbishop of Washington, U.S.A., as a member of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples.

- Appointed as consultors of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples the following: Archbishop Roberto Espenilla of Manila, the Philippines; Fr. Arij Athanasius Roest Crollius, S.J., dean of the Faculty of Missiology of the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome; Fr. Cyril Vasil, S.J., dean of the Faculty of Eastern Canon Law of the Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome; Fr. Patrick Adeso, of the diocese of Kumbo, Cameroon, lecturer at the Catholic Institute of Yaounde, Cameroon; Fr. Anthony Rogers, F.S.C., director of the National Office for the Human Development of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

- Accepted the resignation from the office of auxiliary of the archdiocese of Miami, U.S.A., presented by Bishop Augustin Alejo Roman upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Bishop Juan Alberto Puiggari, auxiliary of Parana, Argentina, as bishop of Mar del Plata (area 22,805, population 732,000, Catholics 593,000, priests 86, permanent deacons 5, religious 178), Argentina.

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