OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 11 NOV 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Msgr. Janusz Stepnowski of the clergy of Lomza, Poland, bureau chief of the Congregation for Bishops, as bishop of Lomza (area 11,500, population 554,433, Catholics 548,548, priests 497, religious 183). The bishop-elect was born in Ostroleka, Poland in 1958 and ordained a priest in 1985. He studied in Spain, then in Italy where he also worked in pastoral care in the diocese of Terni. In Rome, apart from his service at the Congregation for Bishops, he has worked for the Tribunal of the Roman Rota and as chaplain at the Convent of the Daughters of the Presentation. He succeeds Bishop Stanislaw Stefanek, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Bishop Carlos Alberto de Pinho Moreira Azevedo, auxiliary of Lisbon, Portugal, as delegate of the Pontifical Council for Culture.
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