VATICAN CITY, 14 JUL 2008 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. John LeVoir of the clergy of the archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, U.S.A., pastor of the parish of St. Michael and Mary in Stillwater as bishop of New Ulm (area 25,535, population 284,793, Catholics 66,785, priests 58, permanent deacons 3, religious 60), U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in Minneapolis in 1946 and ordained a priest in 1981.
On Sunday 13 July, it was made public that he erected the new diocese of Anse-a-Veau et Miragoane (area 1,100, population 370,000, Catholics 221,000, priests 13, religious 54) Haiti, with territory taken from the diocese of Les Cayes, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan church of Port-au-Prince. He appointed Bishop Pierre-Andre Dumas, auxiliary of Port-au-Prince, as first bishop of the new diocese.
On Saturday 12 July, it was made public that he appointed:
- Cardinal Godfried Danneels, archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels, Belgium, as his special envoy to celebrations marking the millennium of the pilgrimage in honour of "Notre-Dame du Saint-Cordon", due to take place in Valenciennes, France, on 14 September.
- Archbishop Miguel Maury Buendia, apostolic nuncio to Kazakhstan, as apostolic nuncio to Kyrgyzstan.
- As members of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and itinerant peoples: Cardinal Gabriel Zubeir Wako, archbishop of Khartoum, Sudan; Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois, archbishop of Paris, France; His Beatitude Antonios Naguib, patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts, Egypt; Archbishop Paul R. Ruzoka of Tabora, Tanzania, and Bishop Paul Hinder O.F.M. Cap., apostolic vicar of Arabia, United Arab Emirates.
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On Sunday 13 July, it was made public that he erected the new diocese of Anse-a-Veau et Miragoane (area 1,100, population 370,000, Catholics 221,000, priests 13, religious 54) Haiti, with territory taken from the diocese of Les Cayes, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan church of Port-au-Prince. He appointed Bishop Pierre-Andre Dumas, auxiliary of Port-au-Prince, as first bishop of the new diocese.
On Saturday 12 July, it was made public that he appointed:
- Cardinal Godfried Danneels, archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels, Belgium, as his special envoy to celebrations marking the millennium of the pilgrimage in honour of "Notre-Dame du Saint-Cordon", due to take place in Valenciennes, France, on 14 September.
- Archbishop Miguel Maury Buendia, apostolic nuncio to Kazakhstan, as apostolic nuncio to Kyrgyzstan.
- As members of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and itinerant peoples: Cardinal Gabriel Zubeir Wako, archbishop of Khartoum, Sudan; Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois, archbishop of Paris, France; His Beatitude Antonios Naguib, patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts, Egypt; Archbishop Paul R. Ruzoka of Tabora, Tanzania, and Bishop Paul Hinder O.F.M. Cap., apostolic vicar of Arabia, United Arab Emirates.
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