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Monday, March 3, 2008

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 1 MAR 2008 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, presented by Archbishop Francois Marie-Wolff Ligonde, upon having reached the age limit. He is succeeded by Coadjutor Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot, apostolic administrator "sede plena" of the same archdiocese.

 - Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Port-de-Paix, Haiti, presented by Bishop Frantz Colimon S.M.M., in accordance with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law. He is succeeded by Coadjutor Bishop Pierre-Antoine Paulo O.M.I.

- Appointed Bishop Louis Kebreau S.D.B. of Hinche, Haiti, as metropolitan archbishop of Cap-Haitien (area 2,200, population 1,463,520, Catholics 778,110, priests 72, religious 135), Haiti. The archbishop-elect was born in Jeremie, Haiti in 1938, he was ordained a priest in 1974 and consecrated a bishop in 1987. He succeeds Archbishop Hubert Constant O.M.I., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

 - Appointed Msgr. Leon Kalenga Badikebele, nunciature counsellor in the apostolic nunciature to Japan, as apostolic nuncio to Ghana, at the same time elevating him to the dignity of archbishop. The archbishop-elect was born in Kamina, Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1956 and ordained a priest in 1982.

 - Appointed Daniele Dalvai as counsellor of Vatican City State.

 - Appointed Cardinal Ivan Dias, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, as his special envoy to celebrations marking the New Christian Millennium in Ethiopia, due to be held in Addis Ababa from 2 to 4 May on the occasion of the Ethiopian National Eucharistic Congress.
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