Vatican
City, 8 April 2013
(VIS) – His Beatitude Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak, Patriarch of Alexandria
of the Copts, with the consent of the Synod of Bishops of the Coptic
Catholic Church in conformity with Canon 85, para. 2(2) of the Code
of Canons of the Eastern Churches and giving notice to the Apostolic
See, has transferred Bishop Boutros Kamal Fahim Awad Hanna to the
Eparchial See of Minya of the Copts. Bishop Hanna was previously
curial bishop of Alexandria of the Copts and titular of Mareotes.
The
Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the
eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi (of the Italo-Albanians) presented by
Bishop Sotir Ferrara, in accordance with canon 201 para. 1 of the
Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. At the same time, the Holy
Father has appointed Cardinal Paolo Romeo, archbishop of Palermo,
Italy, as apostolic administrator "sede vacante et ad nutum
Sanctae Sedis" of the same eparchy, Piana degli Albanesi (area
420, population 30,200, Catholics 28,700, priests 29, permanent
deacons 4, religious 159), Palermo, Italy.
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