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Monday, January 8, 2007

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JAN 8, 2007 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

 - Appointed Bishop John Charles Wester, auxiliary of the archdiocese of San Francisco, U.S.A., as bishop of Salt Lake City (area 220,974, population 2,351,467, Catholics 180,000, priests 85, permanent deacons 70, religious 86), U.S.A.

 - Appointed as members of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples: Cardinals Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops; Sergio Sebastiani, president of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See; Zenon Grocholewski, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education; William Joseph Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; Franc Rode, prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life; and Agostino Vallini, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura; and Archbishop Giuseppe De Andrea, apostolic nuncio.
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