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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, NOV 15, 2006 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the territorial abbey of Montevergine, Italy, presented by Fr. Giovanni Tarcisio Nazzaro O.S.B., in accordance with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.

 - Appointed Fr. Jaime Pedro Kohl P.S.D.P., master of novices at the novitiate of "Nossa Senhora de Caravaggio" at Farroupilha in the diocese of Caixas do Sul, Brazil, as bishop of Osorio (area 6,120, population 272,000, Catholics 230,000, priests 31, religious 60), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Salvador do Sul, Brazil in 1954 and ordained a priest in 1984. He succeeds Bishop Thadeu Gomes Canellas, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese, the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

 - Elevated Fr. Gianfranco Girotti O.F.M. Conv., regent of the Apostolic Penitentiary, to the dignity of bishop. The bishop-elect was born in Rome in 1937 and ordained a priest in 1963.

- Elevated Msgr. Antoni Stankiewicz, dean of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota, to the dignity of bishop. The bishop-elect was born in Oleszczenice, Poland in 1935 and ordained a priest in 1958.

- Elevated Fr. Raffaele Farina S.D.B., prefect of the Vatican Apostolic Library, to the dignity of bishop. The bishop-elect was born in Ariano Irpino, Italy in 1933 and ordained a priest in 1958.
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