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Monday, March 2, 2009

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS


VATICAN CITY, 2 MAR 2009 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Appointed Bishop Roger Paul Morin, auxiliary of New Orleans, U.S.A., as bishop of Biloxi (area 24,992, population 822,000, Catholics 67,800, priests 79, permanent deacons 26, religious 63), U.S.A.

 - Dispensed Msgr. Gerhard Wagner from accepting the office of auxiliary of the diocese of Linz, Austria.
 
  On Saturday 28 February it was made public that he appointed Archbishop Antonio Maria Veglio, secretary of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, as president of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples. He succeeds Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same office the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
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