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Monday, December 3, 2012

THE HOLY FATHER'S SPECIAL ENVOYS


Vatican City,  (VIS) - Today it was made public that the Pope has appointed Cardinal Franc Rode C.M., prefect emeritus for the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies of Apostolic Life, as his special envoy to the closing celebrations of the 550th anniversary of the archdiocese of Ljubjuana, Slovenia, which will be held on Sunday 9 December. The cardinal will be accompanied by two prelates from the archdiocese of Ljubjuana, Msgr. Anton Slabe, member of the Cathedral Chapter, and head of the eleventh Archdiaconate of the Archdiocese and judge at the metropolitan ecclesiastical tribunal, and Msgr. Stanislaw Zidar, head of the Commission for archdiocesan pastoral care of parish councils.

Today it was also made public that the Pope has nominated Cardinal Guadencio B. Rosales, archbishop emeritus of Manila (Philippines) as his special envoy to the tenth Plenary Assembly of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC), which will take place in the diocesan pastoral centre of Xuan Loc, Vietnam, from 11 to 16 December and will close with a ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City cathedral. The mission accompanying the cardinal will be composed of Msgr. Peter Nguyen Van Tai, Vietnamese, head of Radio Veritas Asia based in Quezon City, Philippines, and Fr. Antonio Maralit, Philippino, parish priest of San Francisco de Sales in the archdiocese of Lipa, Philippines.

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