OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 4 MAY 2011 (VIS) - Today the Holy Father appointed:

- Archbishop Janusz Bolonek, apostolic nuncio to Bulgaria, as apostolic nuncio to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

- as members of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints: Cardinal Velasio De Paolis, C.S., president of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See; Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity; Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski, president of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers; Bishop Ambrogio Spreafico, of Frosinone-Veroli-Ferentino, Italy; and Archbishop Santos Abril y Castello, vice-chamberlain of the Apostolic Chamber.

- Archbishop Joseph Augustine Di Noia, O.P., secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, as consultor of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

- Bishop Dimas Lara Barbosa, auxiliary bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, as metropolitan archbishop of Campo Grande (area 43,762, population 2,336,000, Catholics 1,763,000, priests 110, permanent deacons 1, religious 292), Brazil. He succeeds Archbishop Vitorio Pavanello, S.D.B., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

- Fr. Wilson Luis Angotti Filho, of the clergy of the diocese of Jaboticabal, as auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Belo Horizonte (area 7,240, population 4,767,000, Catholics 3,411,312, priests 645, religious 2,007), Brazil. The bishop-elect, previously assessor of Commission for the Doctrine of the Faith of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil, was born in Tarquaritinga, Sao Paulo in 1958 and was ordained a priest in 1982.

- Fr. Julio Endi Akamine, S.A.C., provincial superior of the Sao Paulo province of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate (Pallottines), as auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Sao Paulo (area 1,645, population 7,511,000, Catholics 5,484,000, priests 858, permanent deacons 50, religious 2,735), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Garca, Sao Paulo in 1962 and was ordained a priest in 1988.

- Fr. Jose Aparecido Hergesse, C.R., procurator general of the Congregation of Clerics Regular (Theatines) in Rome, Italy, as auxiliary bishop of Vitória (area 7,234, population 3,210,000, Catholics 2,010,000, priests 138, religious 264), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Paranapanema, Sao Paulo in 1957 and was ordained a priest in 1985.

- Fr. Edgar Aristizabal Quintero, of the clergy of the diocese of Cartago, Colombia and Fr. Hugo Alberto Torres Marin, of the clergy of the diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos, Colombia, as auxiliary bishops of the archdiocese of Medellin (area 687, population 3,416,000, Catholics 2,969,000, priests 1,037, permanent deacons 44, religious 4,025), Colombia. Bishop-elect Aristizabal, previously director of the Department of Doctrine and Ecumenism of the Colombian Bishops' Conference, was born in Cartago, Colombia in 1965 and was ordained a priest in 1990. Bishop-elect Torres, previously rector of the major seminary of the diocese of Santa Rosa de Osos, was born in Briceno, Colombia in 1960 and was ordained a priest in 1987.
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