Vatican City, 11 December 2015 (VIS) –
The Holy Father has:
- accepted the resignation from the
office of auxiliary of the diocese of San Bernardino, U.S.A.,
presented by Bishop Rutilio Juan Del Riego Janez upon reaching the
age limit.
- appointed Msgr. Rolf Steinhauser as
auxiliary of the archdiocese of Cologne, (area 6,181, population
5,400,000, Catholics 2,056,173, priests 1,095, permanent deacons 310,
religious 1,841), Germany. The bishop-elect was born in Cologne,
Germany in 1952 and was ordained a priest in 1977. He has served in a
number of pastoral roles, including head of youth pastoral ministry
in Bonn, director of the office for youth pastoral ministry of the
archdiocesan curia of Cologne, parish priest and dean of the city of
Dusseldorf. He is currently resident canon of the Metropolitan
chapter of Cologne and director of the Edith Stein House for
Spiritual Exercises.
- given his assent to the decision of
the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church to erect
the eparchy of Kamyanets-Podilskyi of the Ukrainians at Khmelnitskyi
with territory taken from the archieparchy of Ternopil-Zboriv, making
it a suffragan of the same metropolitan Church.
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