Vatican City, 2 February 2015 (VIS) –
The Holy Father has appointed:
- Msgr. Francisco Eduardo Cervantes
Merino as bishop of Orizaba (area 2,012, population 663,000,
Catholics 589,000, priests 89, religious 136), Mexico. The
bishop-elect was born in Ocatan Merino Palafox, Mexico in 1953, and
was ordained a priest in 1979. He holds a licentiate in pastoral
theology from the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome, and a
licentiate in educational psychology from the Normal Superior School
of Mexico. He has held a number of pastoral roles in the diocese of
Tuxpan, including parish vicar, parish priest of the “Corpus
Christi” parish, professor at the diocesan seminary, diocesan
coordinator of youth pastoral ministry, and member of the presbyteral
council. He is currently parish priest of the Cathedral and vicar for
pastoral ministry.
- Msgr. Liberatus Sangu as bishop of
Shinyanga (area 50,000, population 2,440,000, Catholics 745,000,
priests 55, religious 58), Tanzania. The bishop-elect was born in
Mwazye, Tanzania in 1963 and ordained a priest in 1994. He studied
sacramental theology at the St. Anselm Pontifical Athenaeum in Rome,
and has held a number of pastoral and administrative roles, including
formator in the minor seminary of Kaengesa, Sumbawanga; parish priest
in Matai; director for vocations; formator at the preparatory
seminary and head of youth pastoral ministry, and parish priest “ad
tempus” in Sopa. He currently serves as an official of the
Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples.
- Fr. Alphonsus Cullinan as bishop of
Waterford and Lismore (area 2,542, population 157,358, Catholics
146,215, priests 134, religious 353), Ireland. The bishop-elect was
born in County Clare in 1959 and was ordained a priest in 1994. He
taught in schools in Castleconnell, Limerick and Valladolid, Spain
for ten years before preparing for the priesthood in the national
seminary at Maynooth. He studied moral theology at the Alphonsianum
Academy, Rome, where he obtained a doctorate in Christian
anthropology and utilitarianism. He has served as parish vicar at St.
Munchin, chaplain of the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick,
and chaplain at the Limerick Institute of Technology. He is currently
parish priest in the parish of Rathkeale, Limerick.
On Saturday, 31 January the Holy Father
appointed:
- Bishop Adelio Dell'Oro as bishop of
Karaganda (area 711,208, population 3,590,000, Catholics 31,300,
priests 18, religious 41), Kazakhstan, conserving “donec aliter
provideatur” the role of apostolic administrator of Atyrau,
Kazakhstan.
- Fr. Pietro Bovati, S.J., secretary of
the Pontifical Biblical Commission, as consultor of the Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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