Vatican City, 22 March (VIS) – The
Holy Father has:
- accepted the resignation from the
pastoral care of the archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam,
presented by Cardinal Jean-Baptiste Pham Minh Man, upon reaching the
age limit. He is succeeded by Bishop Paul Bui Van Doc, coadjutor of
the same archdiocese.
- appointed Rev. Juan Armando Perez
Talamantes and Rev. Alfonso Gerardo Miranda Guardiola as auxiliaries
of the archdiocese of Monterrey (area 17,886, population 7,387,000,
Catholics 5,910,000, priests 595, permanent deacons 44, religious
1228), Mexico.
Bishop-elect Perez Talamantes was born
in Nuevo Leon, Mexico in 1970, and was ordained a priest in 1997. He
holds a licentiate in philosophy from the Pontifical Gregorian
University, Rome, and has served in the following pastoral roles:
vicar, spiritual director, coordinator of discipline and prefect of
studies in the major seminary of Monterrey, and priest of the
parishes of “Sagrada Familia” and “San Francisco de Asis” in
Apocada. He is currently episcopal vicar for the Zone X and director
of the Benedict XVI Institute for the formation of laypersons in
ordinary pastoral care.
Bishop-elect Miranda Guardiola was born
in Monterrey, Mexico in 1966 and was ordained a priest in 1998. He
holds a licentiate in moral theology from the Pontifical University
of Mexico. He has held the following pastoral roles: prefect of
discipline and studies in the minor seminary, lecturer in the major
seminary, deputy priest in the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, assessor
for groups of divorced persons and rector of the temple of “St.
Maximilian Maria Kolbe”. He is currently secretary chancellor of
the Curia and director of the ecclesiastical archive and department
of history of the archdiocese of Monterrey. He is the author of nine
books.
- appointed Archbishop Pedro Lopez
Quintana, apostolic nuncio in Lituania, as apostolic nuncio in
Estonia and Latvia.
- appointed Archbishop Pierre Nguyen
Van Tot as apostolic nuncio in Sri Lanka. Archbishop Nguyen Van Tot
was previously apostolic nuncio in Costa Rica.
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