VATICAN CITY, JAN 26, 2007 (VIS) - The Holy Father:
- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the territorial prelature of Cafayate, Argentina, presented by Bishop Cipriano Garcia Fernandez O.S.A., upon having reached the age limit.
- Erected the new diocese of Ensenada (area 52,646, population 658,899, Catholics 621,346, priests 43, religious 72) Mexico, with territory taken from the archdiocese of Tijuana, making it a suffragan of the same metropolitan church. He appointed Fr. Sigifredo Noriega Baracelo, vicar general of the diocese of Ciudad Obregon, Mexico, as first bishop of the new diocese. The bishop-elect was born in Granados, Mexico in 1951 and ordained a priest in 1976.
- Gave his assent to the canonical election carried out by the Synod of Bishops of the Armenian-Catholic Church meeting at Bzommar, Lebanon, from September 4 to 13 2006 of Fr. Emmanuel Dabbaghian, syncellus for Georgia of the Ordinariate for Armenians of Eastern Europe, as archbishop of Baghdad of the Armenians, (Catholics 2,000, priests 2, religious 2), Iraq. The bishop-elect was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1933 and ordained a priest in 1967.
RE:ECE:NER/.../GARCIA:NORIEGA:DABBAGHIAN VIS 20070126 (190)
- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the territorial prelature of Cafayate, Argentina, presented by Bishop Cipriano Garcia Fernandez O.S.A., upon having reached the age limit.
- Erected the new diocese of Ensenada (area 52,646, population 658,899, Catholics 621,346, priests 43, religious 72) Mexico, with territory taken from the archdiocese of Tijuana, making it a suffragan of the same metropolitan church. He appointed Fr. Sigifredo Noriega Baracelo, vicar general of the diocese of Ciudad Obregon, Mexico, as first bishop of the new diocese. The bishop-elect was born in Granados, Mexico in 1951 and ordained a priest in 1976.
- Gave his assent to the canonical election carried out by the Synod of Bishops of the Armenian-Catholic Church meeting at Bzommar, Lebanon, from September 4 to 13 2006 of Fr. Emmanuel Dabbaghian, syncellus for Georgia of the Ordinariate for Armenians of Eastern Europe, as archbishop of Baghdad of the Armenians, (Catholics 2,000, priests 2, religious 2), Iraq. The bishop-elect was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1933 and ordained a priest in 1967.
RE:ECE:NER/.../GARCIA:NORIEGA:DABBAGHIAN VIS 20070126 (190)
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