OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUL 6, 2004 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Appointed the following as consultants of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints: Msgr. Romano Penna, member of the Pontifical Theological Academy, Fr. Alfonso C. Chacon Oreja, professor of Church history at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, Fr. Alfredo Simon, O.S.B., lecturer in the Faculty of theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Fr. Guiseppe Phan Tan Thanh, O.P., professor of theology at St. Thomas Aquinas University in Rome, Fr. Luigi Padovese, O.F.M., professor of spiritual theology and patristic theology at the Antonianum in Rome, Fr. Francois-Marie Lethel, O.C.D., member of the Pontifical Theological Academy, Alberto Valentini, S.M.M., lecturer at the Marianum Faculty of Theology, Luigi Nuovo, C.M., lecturer in Church history and the history of Spirituality at the Brignole Sale-Negroni Theological Center in Genoa.

- Appointed Bishop Gordon Dunlap Bennett, S.J., auxiliary of the archdiocese of Baltimore, U.S.A., as bishop of Mandeville (area 3,319, population 576,000, population 8,200, priests 37, permanent deacons 6, religious 41), Jamaica. He accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese presented by Bishop Paul Michael Boyle, C.P., upon having reached the age limit.
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