OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

On Saturday, 15 December, the Holy Father appointed:

- Msgr. Nicolas Henry Marie Denis Thevenin, nunciature counsellor, as apostolic nuncio, at the same time elevating him to the dignity of archbishop. The archbishop-elect was born in Saint-Dizier, France, in 1958 and ordained a priest in 1989. He entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See in 1994, and has served as a papal representative in India, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Belgium, Lebanon, Cuba, Bulgaria and in the Section for Relations with States of the Secretariat of State. He was appointed to the College of Apostolic Protonotaries "de numero participantium" in 2009.

- Archbishop Angelo Vincenzo Zani, secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education, and Fr. Achim Buckenmaier, professor of dogmatic theology and director of the Academy for the Theology of the People of God at the Pontifical Lateran University, as consultors for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.