OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

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

 - Appointed Bishop Socrates B. Villegas of Balanga, Philippines, as archbishop of Lingayen-Dagupan (area 1,565, population 1,313,000, Catholics 1,084,000, priests 76, religious 57), Philippines. The archbishop-elect was born in Manila, Philippines in 1960, he was ordained a priest in 1985 and consecrated a bishop in 2001. He succeeds Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

 - Appointed as ordinary members of the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Literature "dei Virtuosi al Pantheon": Enzo Orti, Angelo Casciello and Luca Pace for the section of painters and filmmakers; Sergio Capellini for the section of sculptors; Marco Guzzi, Roberto Mussapi and Gerardo Bianco for the section of writers and poets.
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