Vatican City, 25 March 2014 (VIS) –
The Holy Father has:
- appointed Fr. Aurelio Pesoa Ribera,
O.F.M. and Fr. Jorge Angel Saldias Pedraza, O. P., as auxiliaries of
the archdiocese of La Paz (area 10, 975, population 1,031,525,
Catholics 825,220, priests 161, permanent deacons 1, religious 472),
Bolivia.
Fr. Pesoa Ribera was born in
Concepcion, Bolivia in 1962, gave his solemn vows in 1988, and was
ordained a priest in 1989. He holds a bachelor's degree in theology
from the “San Pablo” Bolivian Catholic University, and a
licentiate in dogmatic theology from the “Antonianum” Pontifical
Athenaeum, Rome. He has served in a number of pastoral roles in the
Franciscan province of “San Antonio” in Bolivia, including master
of philosophy and theology for the temporal professed and vicar of
the San Francisco fraternity in Cochabamba; lecturer in ecclesiology
and theological anthropology in the “San Pablo” Bolivian Catholic
University; provincial definitor; guardian and master of temporal
professed for the two year philosophy course at Santa Cruz de la
Sierra; president of the ecclesiastical tribunal of first instance in
the archdiocese of Santa Cruz de la Sierra; and provincial vicar of
the “San Antonio” parish. He is currently provincial minister of
the “San Antonio” missionary province.
Fr. Saldias Pedraza was born in Buena
Vista-La Arboleda, Bolivia in 1968 and was ordained a priest in 2001.
He holds a licentiate in theology from the Higher Institute of
Theological Studies in Cochabamba. He has served in a number of
pastoral roles, including priest and rector of the archdiocesan
shrine of “Nuestra Senora de Cotoca”; member of the presbyteral
council of the archdiocese of Santa Cruz; provincial vicar of the
Domenican vice-province of Bolivia, and rector of the chapel of
“Santa Catalina” in the “Virgen del Socavon” parish of
Cochabamba. He is currently priest and rector of the Community of the
archdiocesan shrine of “Nuestra Senora de Cotoca”, priest of the
parish of “Nuestra Senora de la Candelaria”, Paurito, episcopal
vicar of the vicariate of Cotoca, and judge of the metropolitan
ecclesiastical tribunal of the archdiocese of Santa Cruz de la
Sierra.
- appointed Msgr. Marek Zalewski,
nunciature advisor, as apostolic nuncio in Zimbabwe, elevating him at
the same time to the dignity of archbishop. Msgr. Zalewski was born
in Augustow, Poland in 1963 and was ordained a priest in 1989. He has
a degree in canon law, and has served in the diplomatic service of
the Holy See since 1995, in the Pontifical Representations in the
Central African Republic, at the United Nations in New York, Great
Britain, Germany, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia.
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