VATICAN CITY, JUN 5, 2007 (VIS) - The Holy Father:
- Appointed Fr. Luciano Capelli S.D.B., director of the Don Bosco Technical School of Honiara, as bishop of Gizo (area 11,700, population 101,000, Catholics 10,673, priests 6, religious 23), Solomon Islands. The bishop-elect was born in Cologna di Tirano, Italy in 1947 and ordained a priest in 1975. He succeeds Bernard Cyril O'Grady O.P., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese, the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
- Erected the ecclesiastical province of Johannesburg, South Africa, elevating the diocese of that name to the status of metropolitan Church and assigning it as suffragans the dioceses of Manzini (Swaziland), Klerksdorp and Witbank. At the same time, he appointed Archbishop-Bishop Buti Joseph Tlhagale O.M.I. of Johannesburg as metropolitan archbishop of the new archdiocese.
- Transferred the diocese of Gaborone, South Africa, and the apostolic vicariate of Francistown, Botswana, from the province of Bloemfontein to the province of Pretoria. The province of Bloemfontein thus remains with the suffragan sees of Bethlehem, Keimoes-Upington, Kimberley and Kroonstad.
- Appointed Fr. Anton Bal, vicar general of the diocese of Kundiawa, Papua New Guinea, as auxiliary of the same diocese (area 6,181, population 310,000, Catholics 104,943, priests 27, religious 40). The bishop-elect was born in Yuri, Papua New Guinea in 1963, and ordained a priest in 1991.
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- Appointed Fr. Luciano Capelli S.D.B., director of the Don Bosco Technical School of Honiara, as bishop of Gizo (area 11,700, population 101,000, Catholics 10,673, priests 6, religious 23), Solomon Islands. The bishop-elect was born in Cologna di Tirano, Italy in 1947 and ordained a priest in 1975. He succeeds Bernard Cyril O'Grady O.P., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese, the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
- Erected the ecclesiastical province of Johannesburg, South Africa, elevating the diocese of that name to the status of metropolitan Church and assigning it as suffragans the dioceses of Manzini (Swaziland), Klerksdorp and Witbank. At the same time, he appointed Archbishop-Bishop Buti Joseph Tlhagale O.M.I. of Johannesburg as metropolitan archbishop of the new archdiocese.
- Transferred the diocese of Gaborone, South Africa, and the apostolic vicariate of Francistown, Botswana, from the province of Bloemfontein to the province of Pretoria. The province of Bloemfontein thus remains with the suffragan sees of Bethlehem, Keimoes-Upington, Kimberley and Kroonstad.
- Appointed Fr. Anton Bal, vicar general of the diocese of Kundiawa, Papua New Guinea, as auxiliary of the same diocese (area 6,181, population 310,000, Catholics 104,943, priests 27, religious 40). The bishop-elect was born in Yuri, Papua New Guinea in 1963, and ordained a priest in 1991.
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