Vatican City, 30 January 2016 (VIS) –
The Holy Father has appointed:
- Fr. Virgilio Do Carmo Da Silva,
S.D.B., as bishop of Dili (area 4,750, population 595,000, Catholics
562,000, priests 133, permanent deacons 1, religious 502), East
Timor. The bishop-elect was born in Venilale, East Timor in 1967,
gave his religious vows in 1997 and was ordained a priest in 1998. He
has served in a number of pastoral roles including formator of
novices, bursar of the House of Formation in Venilale and parish
vicar, master of novices, and director of the House of Salesians and
the Don Bosco Technical School in Fatumaca. He is currently
provincial of the Salesians.
- Fr. Carlos Alberto Salcedo Ojeda,
O.M.I., as auxiliary of Huancayo (area 4,750, population 595,000,
Catholics 562,000, priests 133, permanent deacons 1, religious 425),
Peru. The bishop-elect was born in Comas, Peru in 1960, gave his
religious vows in 1993 and was ordained a priest in 1996. He has
served in a number of pastoral roles, including parish vicar, parish
priest, counsellor of the delegation of Oblate Missionaries of Mary
Immaculate in Peru, director of the pre-novitiate "St. Eugene
Mazenod" in Lima, secretary of the O.M.I. team for the formation
of the Latin America region and assistant to the master of novices of
the international novitiate in Asuncion, Paraguay. He is currently
episcopal vicar in the archdiocese of Huancayo, parish priest, and
coordinator of the Commission for Justice, Peace and Integrity of the
Oblate Delegation in Peru.
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