Wednesday, September 6, 2006

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, SEP 6, 2006 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Appointed Archbishop James Patrick Green, apostolic nuncio to South Africa and Namibia and apostolic delegate to Botswana, as apostolic nuncio to Lesotho.

 - Gave his assent to the canonical election carried out by the Synod of Bishops of the Coptic Catholic Church meeting on August 31, of Fr. Kamal Fahim Awad Hanna, rector of the Coptic Catholic Seminary of Maadi, Egypt, as bishop of the Curia of the patriarchal eparchy of Alexandria of the Coptic Catholics. The bishop-elect was born in Twa, Egypt, in 1961 and ordained a priest in 1988.
NN:NA/.../GREEN:HANNA                            VIS 20060906 (110)

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