VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - # 127
DATE 10-07-2014

Summary:
- POPE'S PRIVATE VISIT TO CASERTA
- AUDIENCES
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

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 POPE'S PRIVATE VISIT TO CASERTA
 Vatican City, 10 July 2014 (VIS) - On the morning of Saturday 26 July the Holy
Father is provisionally scheduled to pay a private visit to the evangelical
pastor Giovanni Traettino, a friend from his time in Buenos Aires, in his
church of the Reconciliation in Caserta. The idea arose from Pope Francis'
encounter with a group of evangelical pastors last month.

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 AUDIENCES
 Vatican City, 10 July 2014 (VIS) - Yesterday, 9 July, the Holy Father received
in audience Kiko Arguello, founder of the Neocatechumenal Way.

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 OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
 Vatican City, 10 July 2014 (VIS) - The Holy Father has:
 - appointed Fr. Joseph Mlola, ALCP/OSS, as bishop of Kigoma (area 45,066,
population 2,000,000, Catholics 515,701, priests 55, religious 165), Tanzania.
The bishop-elect was born in Mashati Rombo, Tanzania in 1966 and was ordained a
priest in 1997. He studied dogmatic theology at the Pontifical Urbanian
University and has served in a number of pastoral roles, including parish vicar
of Nairagie Enkare, diocese of Ngong, Kenya; vice rector of the Holy Spirit
College, Morogoro, Tanzania; parish vicar of Caliti, Italy, and vice rector of
the St. Charles Lwanga interdiocesan major seminary, Dar-es-Salaam. He is
currently rector of the St. Paul interdiocesan seminary in Kipalapala.
 - appointed Fr. Luis Horacio Gomez Gonzalez as apostolic vicar of Puerto
Gaitan (area 56,500, population 140,000, Catholics 80,000, priests 41,
religious 4), Colombia. The bishop-elect was born in Salaminas-Caldas, Colombia
in 1958 and was ordained a priest in 1991. He has served in a number of
pastoral roles, including priest of several parishes in Castilla,
Aguadas-Caldas and Manizales, and is currently vicar for the administration of
the archdiocese of Manizales.

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