Vatican City, 9 June 2014 (VIS) – The
Holy Father has:
- erected the new diocese of Izcalli
(area 533, population 966,836, Catholics 821,351, priests 64,
religious 64), Mexico, with territory taken from the diocese of
Cuautitlan, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan church of
Tlalnepantla. He appointed Msgr. Francisco Gonzalez Ramos as first
bishop of the new diocese. The bishop-elect was born in Pueblo Nuevo,
Mexico in 1958 and was ordained a priest in 1982. He holds a degree
in philosophy from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, and has
held a number of pastoral and educative roles, including prefect of
discipline in the minor seminary of Leon, and professor in the major
seminary of Leon, and priest of the parish of “Espiritu Santo”.
- appointed the following members of
the Congregation for the Clergy: Cardinal Giuseppe Betori, archbishop
of Florence, Italy; Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, archbishop of
Berlin, Germany; and Archbishop Gintaras Grusas of Vilnius,
Lithuania.
- confirmed the following as members of
the Congregation for the Clergy: Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y
Alamino, Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe,
Cardinal Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Cardinal
Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino, Cardinal Angelo Scola, Cardinal Sean
Patrick O'Malley, Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois, Cardinal Odilo Pedro
Scherer, Cardinal John Njue, Cardinal Donald William Wuerl, Cardinal
Kazimierz Nycz, Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk, Cardinal Joao Braz de
Aviz, Archbishop Tomash Bernard Peta, Bishop Fernando Antonio
Figueiredo O.F.M., Bishop Klaus Kung, and Bishop Heinrich
Mussinghoff.
On Saturday, 7 June, the Holy Father:
- appointed Archbishop Hubertus Matheus
Maria van Megen, apostolic nuncio in Sudan, as apostolic nuncio in
Eritrea.
- appointed Cardinal Jozef Tomko,
prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of
Peoples, as special envoy to the celebration of the 25th anniversary
of the restoration of the freedom of the Greek Catholic eparchy of
Mukachevo, to take place at the major seminary of Uzhhorod, Ukraine
on 28 June 2014.
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