Vatican City, 19 February 2014 (VIS) –
The Holy Father has:
- appointed Msgr. Marcony Vinicius
Ferreira as auxiliary of the archdiocese of Brasilia (area 5,814,
population 2,267,000, Catholics 1,555,000, priests 312, permanent
deacons 71, religious 639), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in
Brasilia, Brazil in 1964 and was ordained a priest in 1988. He
specialised in liturgical theology at the St. Anselm Pontifical
Athenaeum and the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome. He
has served in a number of pastoral roles, including: priest of the
parish of “Nossa Senhora do Rosario de Fatima” and of the
Metropolitan Cathedral of Brasilia; archiepiscopal pastoral
coordinator; member of the presbyteral council and the council of
consultors; episcopal vicar for the vicariate “Centro”, and
secretary general and coordinator of the liturgical team of the 16th
National Eucharistic Congress in 2010. He is currently vicar general
for the archdiocese of Brasilia.
- confirmed Cardinal Leonardo Sandri as
prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches and Msgr. Cyril
Vasil as secretary of the same dicastery.
- renewed as members of the
Congregation for the Oriental Churches His Beatitude Ibrahim Isaac
Sidrak, patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts; and His Beatitude Louis
Raphael I Sako, patriach of Babylon of the Chaldeans;
- nominated the following members of
the Congregation for the Oriental Churches: Cardinal Agostino
Vallini, vicar general of His Holiness for the diocese of Rome;
Archbishop William Charles Skurla of Pittsburgh of the Byzantines;
Archbishop Pietro Parolin, secretary of State; Archbishop Gerhard
Ludwig Muller, bishop emeritus of Regensburg, prefect of the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; Archbishop Vincent
Nichols of Westminster; Archbishop Mario Aurelio Poli of Buenos
Aires; Archbishop Joseph Edward Kurtz of Louisville; Archbishop
Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo of Belo Horizonte; Archbishop Denis James
Hart of Melbourne; Bishop Joseph Werth of Transfiguration of
Novosibirsk.
- confirmed the following members
Congregation for the Oriental Churches for a further five years:
Cardinal Christoph Schonborn; Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran; His
Beatitude Fouad Twal, patriarch of Jerusalem; Archbishop Berhaneyesus
Demerew Souraphiel of Addis Abeba; Archbishop Piero Marini;
Archbishop Jan Babjak, metropolitan of Presov; Bishop Antoine Audo,
S.J.; and the following members for the remainder of their respective
mandates: Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B., Cardinal Dionigi
Tettamanzi, Cardinal Angelo Scola, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Cardinal
Andre Vingt-Trois, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, Cardinal Reinhard Marx,
Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan, Cardinal William Joseph Levada,
Cardinal Francesco Monterisi, Cardinal Kurt Koch, Cardinal Fernando
Filoni, Cardinal Edwin Frederick O'Brien, and Bishop Peter Burcher of
Reykjavik.
- nominated the following consultors of
the Congregation for the Oriental Churches: Bishop Dimitrios
Salachas, Pr. Massimo Pampaloni, S.J., Fr. Philippe Luisier, S.J.,
Pr. Michael Kuchera, S.J., Pr. Lorenzo Lorusso, O.P., Pr. Georges
Ruyssen, S.J., Pr. Thomas Pott, O.S.B., Sac. Pablo Gefaell, Fr. G.
Ronald Roberson, C.S.P., Msgr. Paul Pallath, Fr. Adam Konstanc, O.P.,
Msgr. Guido Marini, Sac. George Gallaro.
- confirmed the following consultors of
the Congregation for the Oriental Churches: Msgr. Christo Proykov,
Hanna G. Alwan, Borys Gudziak, Fr. Michel Van Parys, O.S.B., Msgr.
Michel Berger, Msgr. Osvaldo Raineri, Pr. Archim. Jan Sergiusz Gajek,
M.I.C., Msgr. Natale Loda, Archpriest Vasyl Hovera.
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