OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 8 JUL 2009 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Cardinal William Joseph Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, to the additional office of president of the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei". He succeeds Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, whom the Holy Father thanked at the end of his service as president of the same commission.

- Appointed Msgr. Guido Pozzo, adjunct secretary of the International Theological Commission and official of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, as secretary of the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei".

- Appointed Fr. Celso Antonio Marchiori, pastor of the parish of the Blessed Sacrament in the archdiocese of Curitiba, Brazil, as bishop of Apucarana (area 8,655, population 489,000, Catholics 370,231, priests 77, permanent deacons 70, religious 61), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Campo Largo, Brazil in 1958 and ordained a priest in 1988. He succeeds Bishop Luiz Vicente Bernetti O.A.D., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Bishop Jean-Paul James of Beauvais, France, as bishop of Nantes (area 6,979, population 1,245,000, Catholics 1,141,000, priests 491, permanent deacons 41, religious 1,241), France. He succeeds Bishop Georges Soubrier P.S.S., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

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