Vatican City, 25 July 2015 (VIS) –
The Holy Father has:
- accepted the resignation from the
pastoral care of the diocese of Tumaco, Colombia, presented by Bishop
Gustavo Giron Higuita, O.C.D., upon reaching the age limit.
- appointed Cardinal Secretary of State
Pietro Parolin as papal legate at the celebration of the fifth
centenary of the evangelisation of East Timor, to be held in Dili,
East Timor, on 15 August 2015.
- appointed Cardinal Angelo Scola,
archbishop of Milan, Italy, as special envoy to the Mass to be held
in Bobbio, Italy on 30 August, on the occasion of the Eighteenth
Meeting of the Colombanian Community, on the 1400th anniversary of
the death of St. Colombanus.
- appointed Cardinal Kurt Koch,
president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, as
special envoy to the concluding celebrations of the 1500th
anniversary of the founding of the Abbey of Saint-Maurice,
Switzerland, to take place on 22 September 2015.
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