Vatican City, 31 March 2015 (VIS) –
The Holy Father has appointed:
- Fr. Christophe Amade, M. Afr., as
bishop of Kalemie-Kirungu (area 71,577, population 5,950,013,
Catholics 3,663,230, priests 100, religious 125), Democratic Republic
of the Congo. The bishop-elect was born in Mune, Democratic Republic
of the Congo in 1961 and was ordained a priest in 1990. He studied
theology at the London Missionary Institute, England, and holds a
doctorate in philosophy from the Pontifical Gregorian University,
Rome. He has exercised his pastoral ministry in Funsi in the diocese
of Wa, Ghana, and has served as lecturer and subsequently rector of
the Consortium of Philosophy in Jinja, Uganda, and lecturer in
philosophy at the Consortium of Philosophy in Kumasi, Ghana and at
the St. Augustin University, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the
Congo. He is currently provincial superior of the Society of the
Missionaries of Africa (“White Fathers”) for Central Africa.
- Fr. Donatien Bafuidinsoni, S.J., and
Msgr. Jean-Pierre Kwambamba Masi as auxiliaries of the archdiocese of
Kinshasa (area 8,500, population 10,516,000, Catholics 5,830,000,
priests 1166, religious 3,643), Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Bishop-elect Bafuidinsoni is currently judicial vicar of the same
archdiocese; Bishop-elect Kwambamba Masi, currently of the clergy of
Kenge, is an official of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the
Discipline of the Sacraments.
- Rev. Fr. Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro as
bishop of Piana degli Albanese di Sicilia (area 420, population
30,500, Catholics 29,000, priests 28, permanent deacons 4, religious
159), Italy. The bishop-elect was born in Pozzallo, Italy in 1948 and
was ordained a priest in 1972. He holds a doctorate in oriental canon
law from the Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome, and a licentiate in
ecumenical theology from the Pontifical Institute of St. Thomas
Aquinas (Angelicum), Rome. In the U.S.A. he has served in pastoral
and academic roles in the Melkite eparchy of Newton, Massachusetts,
the Ukrainian eparchy of Stamford, Connecticut, and the Ruthenian
archieparchy of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is currently syncellus
for canonical affairs and judicial vicar in the archieparchy of
Pittsburgh, lecturer in canon law and ecumenical theology at the
Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Sts. Cyril and Methodius in
Pittsburgh, and judge of appeal for the archieparchy of Philadelphia
of the Ukrainians.
- Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, president
of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See, as
prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education.
- Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki,
archbishop of Cologne, Germany, as member of the Administration of
the Patrimony of the Apostolic See.
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