VATICAN CITY, 2 FEB 2008 (VIS) - The Holy Father:
- Accepted the resignation from the office of patriarch of Antioch of the Syrian Catholics presented by His Beatitude Ignace Pierre VIII Abdel-Ahad, and appointed as members of the committee that will govern the Syrian-Catholic Patriarchate until the election of a new patriarch:
- Archbishop Theophile Georges Kassab of Homs, Hama and Nabk of the Syrians, Syria, who at the same time will administrator the patriarchal eparchy as apostolic administrator "sede vacante".
- Archbishop Gregorios Elias Tabe of Damascus of the Syrians, Syria.
- Archbishop Athanase Matti Shaba Matoka of Baghdad of the Syrians, Iraq.
- Appointed Bishop Giovanni Paolo Benotto of Tivoli, Italy, as metropolitan archbishop of Pisa (area 847, population 312,307, Catholics 305,618, priests 216, permanent deacons 19, religious 434), Italy. The archbishop-elect was born in San Giuliano Terme, Italy in 1949, he was ordained a priest in 1973 and consecrated a bishop in 2003. He succeeds Archbishop Alessandro Plotti, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Uije, Angola, presented by Bishop Jose Francisco Moreira dos Santos O.F.M. Cap., upon having reached the age limit. He is succeeded by Coadjutor Bishop Emilio Sumbelelo.
- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the apostolic vicariate of Puerto Maldonado, Peru presented by Bishop Juan Jose Larraneta Olleta O.P., upon having reached the age limit. He is succeeded by Coadjutor Bishop Francisco Gonzalez Hernandez O.P.
- Appointed Msgr. Fabio Reynaldo Colindres Abarca, apostolic administrator "sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis" of the military ordinariate of El Salvador, as military ordinary of El Salvador. The bishop-elect was born in Ilobasco, El Salvador in 1961 and ordained a priest in 1986.
- Appointed Archbishop Emilio Carlos Berlie Belaunzaran of Yucatan, Mexico, as counsellor of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.
- Appointed as consultors of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue: Fr. M. Santiago, India; Fr. Franco Mulakkal, India; Fr. Heinz Wilhelm Steckling O.M.I., Germany; Br. Pombo Kipoy, Democratic Republic of the Congo; and Sr. Kateri Mitchel S.S.A., U.S.A.
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- Accepted the resignation from the office of patriarch of Antioch of the Syrian Catholics presented by His Beatitude Ignace Pierre VIII Abdel-Ahad, and appointed as members of the committee that will govern the Syrian-Catholic Patriarchate until the election of a new patriarch:
- Archbishop Theophile Georges Kassab of Homs, Hama and Nabk of the Syrians, Syria, who at the same time will administrator the patriarchal eparchy as apostolic administrator "sede vacante".
- Archbishop Gregorios Elias Tabe of Damascus of the Syrians, Syria.
- Archbishop Athanase Matti Shaba Matoka of Baghdad of the Syrians, Iraq.
- Appointed Bishop Giovanni Paolo Benotto of Tivoli, Italy, as metropolitan archbishop of Pisa (area 847, population 312,307, Catholics 305,618, priests 216, permanent deacons 19, religious 434), Italy. The archbishop-elect was born in San Giuliano Terme, Italy in 1949, he was ordained a priest in 1973 and consecrated a bishop in 2003. He succeeds Archbishop Alessandro Plotti, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Uije, Angola, presented by Bishop Jose Francisco Moreira dos Santos O.F.M. Cap., upon having reached the age limit. He is succeeded by Coadjutor Bishop Emilio Sumbelelo.
- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the apostolic vicariate of Puerto Maldonado, Peru presented by Bishop Juan Jose Larraneta Olleta O.P., upon having reached the age limit. He is succeeded by Coadjutor Bishop Francisco Gonzalez Hernandez O.P.
- Appointed Msgr. Fabio Reynaldo Colindres Abarca, apostolic administrator "sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis" of the military ordinariate of El Salvador, as military ordinary of El Salvador. The bishop-elect was born in Ilobasco, El Salvador in 1961 and ordained a priest in 1986.
- Appointed Archbishop Emilio Carlos Berlie Belaunzaran of Yucatan, Mexico, as counsellor of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.
- Appointed as consultors of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue: Fr. M. Santiago, India; Fr. Franco Mulakkal, India; Fr. Heinz Wilhelm Steckling O.M.I., Germany; Br. Pombo Kipoy, Democratic Republic of the Congo; and Sr. Kateri Mitchel S.S.A., U.S.A.
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