Wednesday, April 14, 2004

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, APR 14, 2004 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Accepted the resignation to the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Vitoria, Brazil, presented by Archbishop Silvestre Luis Scandian, S.V.D., in conformity with Canon 401, para 2 of the Code of Canon Law. He is succeeded by Coadjutor Archbishop Luiz Mancilha Vilela, SS. CC.

- Appointed Msgr. Melchor Sanchez de Toca y Alameda, bureau chief of the Pontifical Council for Culture, as under-secretary of the same council. 

  On Tuesday, April 13, it was announced that the Pope elevated to the dignity of bishop Dom Fabio Bernardo D'Onorio, abbot ordinary of Montecassino, Italy. Bishop-elect D'Onorio was born in Veroli, Italy in 1940, took his religious vows in 1962 and was ordained a a priest in 1966.

  On Thursday, April 8, it was made public that the Holy Father appointed:

- Bishop Juan Jose Omella Omella of Barbastro-onzon, Spain as Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada-Logrono (area 5,033, population 296,097, Catholics 266,119, priests 339, permanent deacons 1, religious 985), Spain.

- Fr. Chibly Langlois of the clergy of Jacmel, Haiti, director of the diocesan center for pastoral ministry of the diocese of Fort-Liberte, as bishop of the same diocese (area 1,600, population 425,000, Catholics 310,250, priests 36, religious 75), Haiti. Bishop-elect Langlois was born in 1958 in La Vallee, Haiti and was ordained a priest in 1991.

-  Msgrs. Carlo Roberto Maria Redaelli, vicar general of the archdiocese of Milan, Italy, and Luigi Stucchi, episcopal vicar for the Varese area of the archdiocese of Milan, as auxiliaries of the archbishop of Milan (area 4,217, population 5,116,686, Catholics 4, 903,686, priests 3,128, permanent deacons 54, religious 8,013), Italy. Bishop-elect Redaelli was born in Milan in 1956 and ordained a priest in 1980. Bishop-elect Stucchi was born in Sulbiate, Italy in 1941 and ordained a priest in 1966.
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