Thursday, June 28, 2001

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUN 28, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Fr. Robert Maloney, superior general of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), as a member of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

- Appointed Sr. Rita Burley, superior general of the Handmaidens of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and president of the international union of superiors general, as a member of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum."

- Appointed Archbishop Aldo Cavalli, apostolic nuncio in Angola, as apostolic nuncio in Chile.

- Appointed Archbishop Luigi Gatti, apostolic nuncio in Malta and Libya, as apostolic nuncio in Lebanon.

- Appointed Msgr. Giuseppe De Andrea, charge d'affaires at the apostolic nunciature for Kuwait, Bahrain and Yemen, as apostolic nuncio in the same countries, at the same time elevating him to the dignity of archbishop. The archbishop-elect was born in Rivarolo Canavese, Italy in 1930 and ordained a priest in 1953.

- Erected a new exarchate for Syrian-Catholic faithful living in Venezuela. He appointed Chorbishop Antoine Chahda of the archieparchy of Alep, Syria, as apostolic exarch without the title of bishop of the new exarchate. The exarch-elect was born in Aleppo in 1946 and ordained a priest in 1973.

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