OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

Vatican City, 28 June 2013 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father:

   - appointed Fr. Bruno Feillet as auxiliary of the Archdiocese of Reims (area 6,931, population 619,000, Catholics 571,000, priests 127, permanent deacons 36, religious 260), France, assigning him the Titular See of Gaudiaba. The bishop-elect was born in Cauderan, Bordeaux, France in 1959 and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Cambrai in 1988. Since ordination, he has served in several pastoral, academic, and diocesan-level roles, most recently, since 1998, as professor of Philosophy and Moral Theology, since 2007, as professor at the Universite Catholique d'ete for the Church of Morocco, since 2009, as pastor-dean of Valenciennes and its consortium, and, since 2010, as the diocesan director of permanent formation.

   - appointed Msgr. Angel Fernandez Collado as auxiliary of the Archdiocese of Toledo (area , population , Catholics , priests , permanent deacons , religious ), Primate of Spain, assigning him the Titular See of Iliturgi. The bishop-elect was born in Los Cerralbos, Toledo, Spain in 1952 and was ordained a priest in 1977. Since ordination he has served in several pastoral, administrative, academic, and diocesan-level roles, most recently: since 2001, as canon chaplain of the Primate Cathedral; since 2008, as vice-director and co-ordinator of the Biennial of Ecclesial History for the San Ildefonso Superior Institute of Theological Studies in Toledo; since 2003, as archivist of the Primate Cathedral and the Chapter Libraries; since 2010 as vicar general and moderator of the Curia; and, since 2012, as co-ordinator of the Historical Section of the Organization of Hispanic-Mozarabic Studies.

   - appointed Fr. Varghese Thottamkara, CM, as coadjutor of the Apostolic Vicariate of Nekemele (area 98,972, population 7,241,000, Catholics 55,453, priests 28, religious 85), Ethiopia, assigning him the Titular See of Chullu. The bishop-elect was born in Thottuva, Kerala, India, in 1959 and was ordained a priest in 1987. Since ordination, he has served in several pastoral, academic, administrative, missionary, and institutional roles, most recently, since 2010, as assistant to the superior general of the Congregation of Vincentian Fathers. From 1990-1993 He was vice rector and professor in the minor seminary of Ambo, Ethiopia, from 1993-1995 he was rector and professor of the Vincentian major seminary in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, and from 1998-2005 he was the councillor of the Vincentian Ethiopian Province and professor at the St. Francis Theological Institute of Addis Abeba.

   - confirmed the election of Fr. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, O.F.M., as Custos of the Holy Land and Guardian of Mount Zion for another three-year term.

   - appointed Msgr. Pietro Milite as promoter of justice of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota. Msgr. Milite, of the clergy of the Diocese of Nocera Inferiore-Sarno, Italy, was previously notary of the same tribunal.