OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUN 3, 2005 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, adjunct prefect of the Pontifical Household, as metropolitan archbishop of Krakow (area 5,730, population 1,618,593, Catholics 1,566,555, priests 2,026, religous 4,841), Poland. The metropolitan archbishop-elect was born in Raba Wyzna, Poland, in 1939. From 1966 to 1978 he acted as private secretary to Archbishop Karol Wojtyla of Krakow and, following the latter's election as Pope John Paul II, continued to act as his private secretary throughout his pontificate from 1978 to 2005. He was ordained a bishop by John Paul II in 1998 and elevated to the dignity of archbishop in 2003. He succeeds Cardinal Franciszek Macharski, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese was accepted by the Holy Father, upon having reached the age limit.
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AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, JUN 3, 2005 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

 - Six prelates from the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, on their "ad limina" visit:

    - Cardinal Wilfred Fox Napier O.F.M., archbishop of Durban, South Africa, and apostolic administrator "sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis" of Umzimkulu, South Africa, accompanied by Auxiliary Bishop Jabulani Nxumalo O.M.I.

    - Bishop Michael Gower Coleman of Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

    - Bishop Michael Vincent Paschal Rowland O.F.M., of Dundee, South Africa.

    - Bishop William Slattery O.F.M., of Kokstad, South Africa.

    - Bishop Oswald Georg Hirmer of Umtata, South Africa.

 - Two prelates of the Lesotho Catholic Bishops' Conference, on their "ad limina" visit:

    - Archbishop Bernard Mohlalisi O.M.I., of Maseru.

    - Bishop Paul Khoarai of Leribe.

  This evening, he is scheduled to receive Archbishop William Joseph Levada, emeritus of San Francisco, U.S.A., and prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, accompanied by Archbishop Angelo Amato S.D.B., secretary of the same congregation.
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUN 2, 2005 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the eparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, presented by Bishop Sofron Stefan Mudry O.S.B.M., in accordance with Canon 210 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.

 - Gave his assent to the election of Fr. Mykola Simkaylo, pastor of the cathedral church of Ivano-Frankivsk, as bishop of Kolomyia-Chernivtsi (area 14,095, population 384,000, Catholics 240,000, priests 215, religious 4), Ukraine. The election was carried out canonically by the Synod of Bishops of the Greek Catholic Ukrainian Church, meeting in Kiev from October 5 to 12, 2004. The bishop-elect was born in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, in 1952 and ordained a priest in 1974.

  On May 30, the Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Hsinchu, Taiwan, presented by Bishop James Liu Tan-kuei, in accordance with Canon 401, para. 2, of the Code of Canon Law.
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AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, JUN 2, 2005 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

 - Seven prelates from the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, on their "ad limina" visit:

    - Archbishop Lawrence Patrick Henry of Cape Town, South Africa.

    - Bishop Hubert Bucher of Bethlehem, South Africa.

    - Bishop Edward Gabriel Risi O.M.I., of Keimoes-Upington, South Africa.

    - Bishop Erwin Hecht O.M.I., of Kimberley, South Africa.

    - Bishop Edward Robert Adams of Oudtshoorn, South Africa.

    - Bishop Franklyn Nubuasah S.V.D., apostolic vicar of Francistown, South Africa.

    - Bishop Boniface Tshosa Setlalekgosi of Gaborone, Botswana.

  This evening he is scheduled to receive in separate audiences:

 - Cardinal James Francis Stafford, major penitentiary.

 - Cardinal Ernesto Corripio Ahumada, archbishop emeritus of Mexico, Mexico.
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COMMUNIQUE FROM EASTERN CATHOLIC CHURCHES

VATICAN CITY, JUN 2, 2005 (VIS) - Made public today was a communique from the Eastern Catholic Churches stating that Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, major archbishop of Lviv of the Ukrainians, Ukraine, with the consent of the Synod of the Greek Catholic Ukrainian Church, and after having informed the Holy See, has transferred, in accordance with Canon 85 para. 2 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, Bishop Volodymyr Viytyshyn from Kolomiya-Chernoivtsi, Ukraine, to Ivano-Frankivsk (area 6,700, population 799,879, Catholics 609,098, priests 392, religious 170), Ukraine.
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