OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, NOV 13, 2004 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Msgr. Francesco Marino, of the clergy of the diocese of Aversa, diocesan assistant of Italian Catholic Action and pastor and vicar of St. Michael the Archangel in Trentola Ducenta, as bishop of Avellino (area 394, population 145,000, Catholics 143,500, priests 99, permanent deacons 10, religious 200), Italy. The bishop-elect was born in Cesa, Italy in 1955 and was ordained a priest in 1979.  He succeeds Bishop Antonio Forte, whose resignation to the pastoral care of this diocese was accepted upon having reached the age limit.

- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Orlando, presented by Bishop Norbert M. Dorsey, upon having reached the age limit. Coadjutor Bishop Thomas G. Wenski succeeds him.

- Appointed Cardinals Paul Poupard, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Camillo Ruini, vicar general of His Holiness for the diocese of Rome, Angelo Scola, patriarch of Venice, and Julian Herranz, president of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, as members of the Committee of the Presidency of the Pontifical Council for Laity.

- Appointed Archbishops Gaudencio B. Rosales of Manila, the Philippines and Diarmuid Martin of Dublin, Ireland, as members of the Pontifical Council of the Social Communications.
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