Vatican City, 7 September 2015 (VIS) –
The Holy Father has appointed:
On Saturday, 5 September, the Holy
Father:
- appointed Cardinal Zenon
Grocholewski, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Catholic
Education, as his special envoy at the concluding celebration of the
500th anniversary of the arrival from Rome of the Sacred Image of the
Madonna of Lask in the shrine of Lask in the archdiocese of Lodz, to
be held on Sunday 8 November.
- accepted the resignation from the
pastoral care of the diocese of Taiohae, Marquis Islands, France,
presented by Bishop Guy Chevalier, SS.CC. upon reaching the age
limit. He is succeeded by Bishop Pascal Chang-Soi, SS.CC., coadjutor
of the same diocese.
- gave his assent to the canonical
election by the Synod of Bishops of the Armenian Patriarchal Church
of Rev. Archpriest Kevork (Georges) Assadourian as auxiliary of the
patriarchal eparchy of Beirut of the Armenians (Catholics 12,500,
priests 22, permanent deacons 3, religious 49), Lebanon. The
bishop-elect was born in Kamichlie, Syria in 1961 and was ordained a
priest in 1986. He studied philosophy and theology at the Pontifical
University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) and at the Pontifical
Lateran University, and has served in a number of roles in Lebanon,
including vice rector of the seminary of Bzommar, vicar and parish
priest in several parishes, and bursar. He currently exercises his
pastoral ministry in Paris in the Armenian-Catholic eparchy of
France.
- appointed Archbishop Thomas E.
Gullickson, formerly apostolic nuncio in Ukraine, as apostolic nuncio
in Switzerland and in the Principality of Liechtenstein.
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