VATICAN CITY, JUN 20, 2005 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Ghislain de Rasilly S.M., provincial vicar of the Marist Fathers for the Pacific Ocean, as bishop of Wallis and Futuna (area 256, population 14,987, Catholics 14,687, priests 10, religious 42), French Overseas Territories. The bishop-elect was born in Juvardeil, France, in 1943 and ordained a priest in 1971. He succeeds Bishop Lolesio Fuahea, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
On Saturday, June 18, it was made public that he:
- Appointed Fr. Juan Carlos Vera Plasencia M.S.C, regional superior for Peru of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, as bishop prelate of the territorial prelature of Caraveli (area 29,229, population 115,000, Catholics 105,000, priests 14, religious 62), Peru. The bishop-elect was born in Trujillo, Peru, in 1961 and ordained a priest in 1988. He succeeds Bishop Bernhard Kuhnel Langer M.S.C., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same territorial prelature the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
- Appointed Fr. Audilio Aguilar Aguilar of the clergy of Santiago de Veraguas, Panama, and pastor of the parish of St. Michael the Archangel, as bishop of Colon - Kuna Yala (area 8,167, population 248,000, Catholics 178,000, priests 32, religious 60), Panama. The bishop-elect was born in Canazas, Panama, in 1963, and ordained to the priesthood in 1990. He succeeds Bishop Carlos Maria Ariz Bolea C.M.F., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Huancavelica, Peru, presented by Bishop William Dermott Molloy McDermott, upon having reached the age limit. He is succeeded by Coadjutor Bishop Isidro Barrio Barrio.
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