On
Saturday, 30 November the Holy Father:
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confirmed Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski as prefect for the Congregation
for Catholic Education and Archbishop Angelo Vincenzo Zani in the
role of secretary of the same dicastery.
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appointed the following members of the Congregration for Catholic
Education: Cardinal Béchara Boutros Raï, O.M.M., Patriarch of
Antioch of the Maronites, Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer, archbishop of
São Paulo, Cardinal John Njue, archbishop of Nairobi, Cardinal
Timothy Michael Dolan, archbishop of New York, Cardinal John Tong
Hon, bishop of Hong Kong, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, archbishop
of Manila, Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council
for Promoting Christian Unity; Archbishop Beniamino Stella, prefect
of the Congregation for the Clergy, Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati
Andrello, S.D.B., of Santiago de Chile, Archbishop Marek
Jędraszewski, de Lodz, Archbishop Jorge Carlos Patron Wong,
secretary for Seminarians of the Congregation for the Clergy.
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confirmed the roles of the following members of the Congregation for
Catholic Education: Cardinal Antonio María Rouco Varela, Cardinal
Christoph Schönborn, O.P., Cardinal Audrys Juozas Bačkis, Cardinal
Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, S.D.B., Cardinal José da Cruz
Policarpo, Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, Cardinal Josip
Bozanić, Cardinal Péter Erdő, Cardinal Marc Ouellet,
P.S.S.,Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Cardinal
Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Cardinal Thomas
Christopher Collins, Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk, Cardinal Leonardo
Sandri, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, Cardinal Fernando Filoni,
Cardinal João Braz de Aviz, Cardinal Edwin Frederick O'Brien,
Archbishop Alfredo Horacio Zecca, Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller
and Bishop Charles Morerod, O.P.
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appointed Rev. Raul Biord Castillo, S.D.B., as bishop of La Guaira
(area 1,497, population 388,000, Catholics 352,000, priests 50,
permanent deacons 2, religious 55), Venezuela. The bishop-elect was
born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1962 and was ordained a priest in 1989.
He holds a licentiate in theology from the Pontifical Salesian
University, Rome. and a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical
Gregorian University, Rome. He has served in the following roles:
parish vicar in the parish of San Juan Bosco, Caracas; chaplain for
the nuns of Los Teques, professor at the Institute of Theology for
Religious Persons (ITER) of Caracas and professor and rector of the
“P. Ojeda” Salesian University Institute of Los Teques. He is
provincial vicar of the Salesian Society of St. John Bosco in
Venezuela.
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appointed Fr. Patrick Chisanga, O.F.M. Conv., as bishop of Mansa
(area 51,000, population 1,162,000, Catholics 434,000, priests 55,
permanent deacons 2, religious 99), Zambia. The bishop-elect was born
in Kamuchanga, Zambia in 1971 and was ordained a priest in 1999. He
completed his studies in Psychology at the Pontifical Gregorian
University, Rome, and has served in a number of pastoral roles,
including parish priest, guardian and formator at the St. Bonaventure
College Regina Pacis of Chawama-Lusaka, guardian and director of
studies at the Makeny Friary of Lusaka, and professor of Zambia and
Malawi. He is currently professor at the St. Bonaventure College.
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appointed Msgr. Andrea Turazzi of the clergy of Ferrara-Comacchio as
bishop of San Marino-Montefeltro (area 800, population 68,341,
Catholics 61,696, priests 71, permanent deacons 8, religious 77),
Italy-San Marino. The bishop-elect was born in Stellata di Bondeno,
Italy in 1948 and was ordained a priest in 1972. He holds a
licentiate in theology from the He has served in a number of pastoral
roles in the archdiocese of Ferrara-Comacchio, including vicar of the
parishes of Madonnina in Ferrara, and Pontelagoscuro, spiritual
director of the archiepiscopal seminary, priest of the parishes of
Corpus Domini and Sacra Famiglia in Ferrara. He has also been
director of the diocesan office and co-ordinator of pastoral offices,
archiepiscopal delegate for the permanent diaconate and for the Ordo
Virginum, and assistant for Catholic Action. He is a member of the
presbyteral Council and the College of Consultors. He was named
Chaplain of His Holiness in 2006.
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appointed Msgr. Alain de Raemy as auxiliary bishop of Lausanne,
Geneve and Fribourg (area 5,557, population 1,619,000, Catholics
703,000, priests 508, permanent deacons 25, religious 1,185),
Switzerland. The bishop-elect was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1959
and was ordained a priest in 1986. He holds a licentiate in theology
from the University of Fribourg. He has served in a number of
pastoral roles, including priest of the parish Cristo Rey in
Fribourg, parish priest and canon of the cathedral of St. Nicholas,
moderator of the “Notre Dame” pastoral unit, Fribourg. He is
currently chaplain of the Pontifical Swiss Guard in the Vatican.
