Vatican
City, 12 June 2013
(VIS) – Today, the Holy Father:
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accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the territorial
abbey of Montecassino, Italy, presented by Abbot Pietro Vittorelli,
O.S.B., in accordance with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon
Law.
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appointed Fr. Luiz Fernando Lisboa, C.P., as bishop of Pemba (area
82,625, population 836,000, Catholics 578,798, priests 21, religious
88), Mozambique. The bishop-elect was born in Marques de Valenca, Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil in 1955 and was ordained a priest in 1983. Since
ordination, he has served in several community and parochial level
roles, most recently, since 2011, as pastor of the Santa Teresinha de
Lisieux parish in Colombo-Parana, Brazil. He was a missionary to
Mozambique between 2001 and 2010.
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appointed Fr. Michael Gerber as auxiliary of the Archdiocese of
Freiburg (area 16,229, population 4,772,000, Catholics 1,984,900,
priests 1,147, permanent deacons 243, religious 1,866), Germany. The
bishop-elect was born in Oberkirch, Germany in 1970 and was ordained
a priest in 1997. Since ordination, he has served in several pastoral
and academic roles, most recently, since 2011, as rector of the
archdiocese's Collegium Borromaeum seminary.
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appointed Dr. Raffaele Coppola, professor in the faculty of
Jurisprudence at the State University of Bari and member of the Holy
See's Corps of Lawyers for the Canon and Civil Forum, as promoter of
justice in the Vatican City State Court of Appeals.
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