Thursday, March 8, 2007

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAR 8, 2007 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Lleida, Spain, presented by Bishop Francesc-Xavier Ciuraneta Aymi, in accordance with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.

 - Appointed Bishop Antonio Jose Cavaco Carrilho, auxiliary of Porto, Portugal, as bishop of Funchal (area 800, population 282,000, Catholics 270,000, priests 104, permanent deacons 2, religious 289), Portugal. He succeeds Bishop Teodoro de Faria, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese, the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

 - Appointed as members of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue: Cardinals Ivan Dias, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, and Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity; His Beatitude Nerses Bedros XIX, patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians, Lebanon; Archbishops Paulino Lukundu Loro M.C.C.I., of Juba, Sudan; Murphy Nicholas Xavier Pakiam of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Archbishop Fouad Twal, coadjutor to the patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins; Bishops Antoine Audo S.J., of Alep, Beroea, Halab, Syria; John Bosco Panya Kritcharoen of Ratchaburi, Thailand; Bishop Warnakulasurya Wadumestrige Devasritha Valence Mendis of Chilaw, Sri Lanka; Bosco Lin Chi-nan of Tainan, Taiwan; Paul Bemile of Wa, Ghana; Rene-Marie Ehuzu C.I.M., of Abomey, Benin; Carlos Aguiar Retes of Texcoco, Mexico; Pierre Tran Dinh Tu of Phu Cuong, Vietnam; George Dodo of Zaria, Nigeria; William Francis Murphy of Rockville Centre, U.S.A.; Paul Yemboaro Ouedraogo of Fada N'Gourma, Burkina Faso; Guy Harpigny of Tournai, Belgium, and Bishop Botros Fahim Awad Hanna, curial bishop of the patriarchate of Alexandria of the Copts, Egypt.

 - Appointed Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier O.F.M., archbishop of Durban, South Africa, as a member of the Pontifical Council for Culture.

 - Appointed as members of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences, David D'Avray, professor of medieval history at University College, London, England, and Nelson Hubert Minnich, professor of Church history at the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C., U.S.A.

 - Appointed Fr. Giovanni Paolo Zedda of the clergy of the diocese of Ales-Terralba, Italy, vicar forane and pastor of the parish of "Santa Chiara" in San Gavino Monreale, as bishop of Iglesias (area 1,678, population 145,600, Catholics 145,000, priests 89, permanent deacons 2, religious 74), Italy. The bishop-elect was born in Ingurtosu, Italy in 1947 and ordained a priest in 1971. He succeeds Bishop Tarciso Pillolla, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese, the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
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