Monday, June 11, 2007

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUN 9, 2007 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Accepted the resignation from the office of prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches presented by Cardinal Ignace Moussa I Daoud upon having reached the age limit.

 - Appointed Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, substitute for General Affairs of the Secretariat of State as prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.

 - Appointed Archbishop Fernando Filoni, apostolic nuncio to the Philippines, as substitute for General Affairs of the Secretariat of State.

 - Appointed as ordinary for Catholics of oriental rite resident in Poland and without their own ordinary, Archbishop Kazimierz Nycz of Warsaw, Poland. He succeeds Cardinal Joseph Glemp, archbishop emeritus of Warsaw, whose resignation from the same office, the Holy Father accepted, in accordance with canon 201 para. 1 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.

 - Accepted the resignation from the office of auxiliary to the patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins, presented by Bishop Kamal Hanna Bathish, upon having reached the age limit.

 - Appointed Bishop Akio Johnson Mutek, auxiliary of Torit, Sudan, as bishop of the same diocese (area 76,000, population 793,000, Catholics 604,350, priests 75, religious 36).
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