Monday, June 9, 2008

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 9 JUN 2008 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Msgr. Manuel A. Cruz of the clergy of the archdiocese of Newark, U.S.A., archdiocesan director for health pastoral care, as auxiliary of the same archdiocese (area 1,328, population 2,914,000, Catholics 1,357,000, priests 834, permanent deacons 196, religious 1,146). The bishop-elect was born in Havana, Cuba in 1953 and ordained a priest in 1980.

  On Saturday 7 June, it was made public that he appointed:

 - Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, archbishop of Florence, Italy, as president of the Pontifical Council for the Family.

 - Msgr. Aldo Giordano, secretary general of the Council of European Episcopal Conferences (CCEE), as special envoy and permanent observer of the Holy See to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.

 - Massimo Bufacchi as director of the Labour Office of the Apostolic See.
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