OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUL 1, 2005 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Accepted the resignation from the office of auxiliary of the diocese of Bayeux et Lisieux, France, presented by Bishop Guy Gaucher O.C.D., upon having reached the age limit.

 - Appointed Bishop Louis Chamniern Santisukniran of Nakhon Sawan, Thailand, as archbishop of Thare and Nonseng (area 25,447, population 3,157,780, Catholics 50,008, priests 50, religious 108), Thailand.

 - Appointed Bishop Wiktor Skworc of Tarnow, Poland, as member of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
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AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, JUL 1, 2005 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

 - Ferenc Madl, president of the Republic of Hungary, accompanied by his wife and an entourage.

 - Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

 - Archbishop Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, archpriest of the Pontifical Basilica of St. Paul's Outside-the-Walls.

 - Members of the executive council of the Papal Foundation: Cardinals William Henry Keeler, archbishop of Baltimore, U.S.A., Theodore Edgar McCarrick, archbishop of Washington, U.S.A., Justin Francis Rigali, archbishop of Philadelphia, U.S.A.

- Carl A. Anderson, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, accompanied by his wife and by Bishop William Edward Lori of Bridgeport, U.S.A., supreme chaplain of the Knights of  Columbus.

  This evening, he is scheduled to receive in audience Archbishop William Joseph Levada, archbishop emeritus of San Francisco, U.S.A., and prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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POPE BENEDICT'S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR JULY

VATICAN CITY, JUL 1, 2005 (VIS) - Pope Benedict's general prayer intention for the month of July is: "That Christians be sensitive to the needs of everyone, without ever hiding the radical requirements of the Gospel message."

  His mission intention is: "That all the baptized be committed, each in their own state of life, to transforming society by permeating the mentality and structures of the world with the light of the Gospel."
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUN 30, 2005 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Accepted the resignation from the office of auxiliary of the archdiocese of Westminster, Great Britain, presented by Bishop James O'Brien, upon having reached the age limit.

 - Appointed Msgr. Bernardo Alvarez Afonso, vicar general of San Cristobal de La Laguna, Tenerife (area 3,328, population 915,262, Catholics 823,736, priests 260, permanent deacons 3, religious 554), Spain, as bishop of the same diocese. The bishop-elect was born in Brena Alta, Spain, in 1949 and ordained a priest in 1976. He succeeds Felipe Fernandez Garcia, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese was accepted by the Holy Father, in accordance with Canon 401, para. 2, of the Code of Canon law.

 - Appointed Fr. Krzysztof Bialasik S.V.D., secretary for pastoral care of the Bolivian Episcopal Conference, as bishop of Oruro (area 53,588, population 403,521, Catholics 342,993, priests 36, permanent deacons 5, religious 133), Bolivia. The bishop-elect was born in Zbaszyn, Poland, in 1958 and ordained to the priesthood in 1985.

 - Appointed Fr. Ricardo Ernesto Centellas Guzman, vicar general of the archdiocese of Sucre, Bolivia, as auxiliary of Potosi (area 118,218, population 723,494, Catholics 651,144, priests 63, permanent deacons 5, religious 105), Bolivia. The bishop-elect was born in Suquistaca, Bolivia, in 1962 and ordained a priest in 1988.
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AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, JUN 30, 2005 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in separate audiences:

 - Vaira Vike-Freiberga, president of the Republic of Latvia, accompanied by her husband and an entourage.

 - Cardinal Christoph Schonborn O.P., archbishop of Vienna, Austria.

  This evening he is scheduled to receive in audience Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
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