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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 5 JAN 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Accepted the resignation from the office of auxiliary of the diocese of
Warszawa-Praga, Poland, presented by Bishop Stanislaw Kedziora, upon having
reached the age limit.

- Appointed Msgr. Andrew Jagaye Karnley of the clergy of the archdiocese of
Monrovia, Liberia, former apostolic administrator "sede vacante",
as bishop of
Cape Palmas (area 31,760, population 432,000, Catholics 35,000, priests 13,
religious 18), Liberia. The bishop-elect was born in Jawejeh, Liberia in 1967
and ordained a priest in 1995.

- Appointed Msgr. Geremias Steinmetz of the clergy of the diocese of Palmas -
Francisco Beltrao, Brazil, vicar general, as bishop of Paranavai (area 8,699,
population 252,000, Catholics 214,500, priests 43, religious 78), Brazil. The
bishop-elect was born in Sulina, Brazil in 1965 and ordained a priest in 1991.

- Appointed Msgr. Laurent Dognin of the clergy of the diocese of Nanterre,
France, vicar general, as auxiliary of the archdiocese of Bordeaux (area
10,000, population 1,376,000, Catholics 1,097,000, priests 237, permanent
deacons 17, religious 456), France. The bishop-elect was born in Paris, France
in 1953 and ordained a priest in 1980.

- Appointed Archbishop Luigi Travaglino, apostolic nuncio, as permanent
observer of the Holy See to the United Nations Organisations for Food and
Agriculture (FAO, IFAD and WFP).

- Appointed Msgr. Segundo Tejado Munoz, official of the Pontifical Council "Cor
Unum", as under secretary of the same dicastery.

- Appointed Miguel A. L. Nicolelis, professor of neurosciences at Duke
University in Durham, U.S.A., as an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy
of Sciences.

- Appointed as members of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care:
Cardinal George Pell, archbishop of Sydney, Australia; Cardinal Jean-Baptiste
Pham Minh Man, archbishop of Than-Pho Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam; Cardinal Stanislaw
Dziwisz, archbishop of Krakow, Poland; Archbishop Bernard Blasius Moras of
Bangalore, India; Bishop Patricio H. Alo of Mati, Philippines; Bishop Rafael
Palmero Ramos of Orihuela-Alicante, Spain; Stefan Regmunt, Bishop of Zielona
Gora-Gorzow, Poland; Bishop Luis Artemio Flores Calzada of Valle de Chalco,
Mexico; Fr. Renato Salvatore M.I., superior general of the Clerks Regular
Ministers to the Sick; Br. Donatus Forkan O.H., prior general of the
Hospitaller Order of St. John of God; Br. Mario Bonora P.S.D.P., president of
the hospital "Sacro Cuore Don Calabria" of Negrar, Verona, and national
president of the Association of Social-Healthcare Institutes - Aris, Italy; Sr.
Maria Maurizia Giovanna Biancucci R.S.V., superior general of the Benedictine
Congregation of the Reparatrix Sisters of the Holy Face of Our Lord Jesus
Christ; Sr. Maria Luisa Colombo S.D.C., of the Sisters of Charity of St.
Jeanne-Antide Thouret; Gian Carlo Cesana, member of the academic committee of
the "Scuola di Direzione in Sanita" of the Italian region of
Lombardy; Andrea
Riccardi, founder of the Sant'Egidio Community; Jose Maria Simon Castellvi,
president of the International Federation of the Association of Catholic Media
- F.I.A.M.C., Spain; Piero Uroda, president of the International Federation of
Catholic Pharmacists - F.I.P.C., Italy, and Marylee J. Meehan, president of the
International Catholic Committee of Nurses and Medical-Social Assistants -
C.I.C.I.A.M.S., U.S.A.

- Appointed as consultors of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care:
Archbishop-Bishop Domenico Calcagno, secretary of APSA and president of FAS,
Vatican City; Archbishop Piergiuseppe Vacchelli, adjunct secretary of the
Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples and president of the Pontifical
Missionary Works; Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, secretary of the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; Archbishop-Bishop Peter Liu Cheng-
Chung of Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Bishop Jean Laffitte, secretary of the Pontifical
Council for the Family; Msgr. Livio Melina, president of the John Paul II
Pontifical Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family; Msgr. Andrea Pio
Cristiani, founder of the "Shalom" Movement, Italy; Msgr. Krzysztof Jozef
Nykiel, official of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; Msgr.
Jacques Suaudeau, official of the Pontifical Academy for Life; Fr. Pierre Jean
Welsch, ecclesiastical assistant of the International Federation of Catholic
Pharmacists - F.I.P.C., Belgium; Fr. Maurizio Pietro Faggioni O.F.M.,
international ecclesiastical assistant of the International Federation of the
Associations of Catholic Doctors - F.I.A.M.C., Italy; Domenico Arduini,
director of the obstetric and gynaecological clinic of Rome's University of Tor
Vergata; Filippo Maria Boscia, president of the "Societa Italiana per la
Bioetica e i Comitati Etici" - S.I.B.C.E.; Vincenzo Buonomo, dean of the
faculty of civil Law at Rome's Pontifical Lateran University; Christoph von
Ritter, director of the "Romed Klinik Prien Am Chiemsee", Germany; John M.
Haas, president of the National Catholic Bioethics Centre of Philadelphia,
U.S.A.; Jean-Marie Le Mene, president of the "Fondation Jerome Lejeune" of
Paris, France; Massimo Petrini, ordinary professor and vice president of
"Camillianum" International Institute of Healthcare Theology, Italy; Jacek
Rysz, professor at the faculty of medicine at the University of Lodz, Poland;
Roberto Sega, director of general medicine at the hospital of Vimercate, Italy;
Antonio G. Spagnolo, director of the institute of bioethics at Rome's Sacred
Heart Catholic University; Stanislaw Szczepan Gozdz, director of the
oncological hospital of Kielce, Poland; Mario R. Angi, head of preventative
ophthalmology at the University of Padua, Italy; Marco Bregni, director of the
cancer treatment unit at the hospital of S. Giuseppe in Milan, Italy; Daniel A.
Cabezas Gomez, psychiatrist at Rome's "Fatebenefratelli" hospital; Augusto
Mosca, medical director at the urological department of Rome's CTO hospital;
Fabio Rodia, under director of the second orthopaedic division of Rome's CTO
hospital; Kuo-Inn Tsou, president of the faculty of medicine at the Fu Jen
Catholic University in Taipei, Taiwan, and Rosa Merola, psychologist at Rome's
Rebibbia prison.

- Appointed as members of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New
Evangelisation: Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, archbishop of Vienna, Austria;
Cardinal Angelo Scola, patriarch of Venice, Italy; Cardinal George Pell,
archbishop of Sydney, Australia; Cardinal Josip Bozanic, archbishop of Zagreb,
Croatia; Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops;
Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega, archbishop of Monterrey, Mexico; Cardinal
Odilo Pedro Scherer, archbishop of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Cardinal William Joseph
Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; Cardinal
Stanislaw Rylko, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity; Archbishop
Claudio Maria Celli, president of the Pontifical Council for Social
Communications; Archbishop Nikola Eterovic, secretary general of the Synod of
Bishops; Coadjutor Archbishop Pierre-Marie Carre of Montpellier, France;
Archbishop Timothy Michael Dolan of New York, U.S.A.; Archbishop Robert
Zollitsch of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany; Archbishop Bruno Forte of
Chieti-Vasto, Italy; Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham, England;
Archbishop Andre-Mutien Leonard of Mechelen-Brussels, Belgium; Bishop Adolfo
Gonzalez Montes of Almeria, Spain, and Bishop Vincenzo Paglia of
Terni-Narni-Amelia, Italy.
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