OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 4 JUL 2009 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Bishop Giampaolo Crepaldi, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, as bishop of Trieste (area 134, population 243,900, Catholics 220,000, priests 144, permanent deacons 10, religious 189), Italy, giving him the "ad personam" title of archbishop. The archbishop-elect was born in Pettorazza Grimani, Italy in 1947, he was ordained a priest in 1971 and consecrated a bishop in 2001. He succeeds Bishop Eugenio Ravignani, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed as consultors of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples: Archbishop-bishop Henryk Hoser S.A.C. of Warszawa-Praga, Poland; Bishop Paul Hinder O.F.M. Cap., apostolic vicar of Arabia, United Arab Emirates; Fr. Cataldo Zuccaro, rector of the Pontifical Urban University in Rome, and Fr. Heinz Wilhelm Steckling O.M.I., superior general of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate.

- Appointed Cardinal Joachim Meisner, archbishop of Cologne, Germany, as his special envoy to celebrations marking the twelfth centenary of the death of St. Ludger, first bishop of Munster and "Apostle of the Saxons and Frisians", due to take place at Werden an der Ruhr, Germany on 6 September.

- Appointed Msgr. Juan Miguel Ferrer Grenesche, vicar general of the archdiocese of Toledo, Spain, as second under secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.

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