OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

Vatican City,  (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

Msgr. Robert P. Deeley, vicar general of the archdiocese of Boston, U.S.A., as auxiliary of the same archdiocese (area 6,386, population 4,181,000, Catholics 1,908,000, priests 1.233, permanent deacons 247, religious 2550). The bishop-elect was born in Cambridge, U.S.A. in 1946 and ordained a priest in 1973. He studied in Washington DC and at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, and served in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2004 to 2011.

Msgr. Angelo Vincenzo Zani, under secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education, as secretary of the same congregation, at the same time elevating him to the dignity of archbishop. The archbishop-elect was born in Brescia, Italy in 1950 and ordained a priest in 1975. He obtained his doctorate in theology at the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome and has fulfilled roles in relation to the pastoral care of schools and universities, in the Lombard Episcopal Conference and the Italian Episcopal Conference.