SUMMARY:
- OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
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STATISTICS
FOR THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN MEXICO AND CUBA
Vatican
City, 21 March 2012 (VIS) - Benedict XVI is due to make an apostolic
trip to Mexico and Cuba from 23 to 29 March, to mark the two
hundredth anniversary of the independence of Mexico, and the four
hundredth of the discovery of the image of "Nuestra Senora de la
Caridad del Cobre" in Cuba. For the occasion statistics have
been published concerning the Catholic Church in those two countries.
The information, updated to 31 December 2010, comes from the Central
Statistical Office of the Church.
Mexico
has a surface area of 1,958,201 square kilometres and a population of
108,426,000, of whom 99,635,000 (91.89 percent) are Catholic. There
are 93 ecclesiastical circumscriptions, 6,744 parishes and 7,169
pastoral centres of other kinds. Currently, there are 163 bishops,
16,234 priests, 30,023 religious, 505 members of secular institutes,
25,846 lay missionaries and 295,462 catechists. Minor seminarians
number 4,524 and major seminarians 6,495.
A
total of 1,856,735 students attend 8,991 centres of Catholic
education of all levels and 1,822 special education centres. Other
institutions belonging to the Church or run by priests or religious
in Mexico include 257 hospitals, 1,602 clinics, 8 leper colonies, 372
homes for the elderly or disabled, 329 orphanages and nurseries,
2,134 family counselling centres and other pro-life centres, and 340
institutions of other kinds.
Cuba
has a surface area of 110,861 square kilometres and a population of
11,242,000, of whom 6,766,000 (60.19 percent) are Catholic. There are
11 ecclesiastical circumscriptions, 304 parishes and 2,210 pastoral
centres of other kinds. Currently, there are 17 bishops, 361 priests,
656 religious, 24 members of secular institutes, 2,122 lay
missionaries and 4,133 catechists. Minor seminarians number 13 and
major seminarians 78.
A
total of 1,113 students attend 12 centres of Catholic education of
all levels and 10 special education centres. Other institutions
belonging to the Church or run by priests or religious in Cuba
include 2 clinics, 1 leper colony, 8 homes for the elderly or
disabled, 3 orphanages and nurseries, and 3 institutions of other
kinds.
OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican
City, 21 March 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:
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As members of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care:
Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier O.F.M., archbishop of Durban, South
Africa, and Bishop Walter Mixa, emeritus of Augsburg, Germany.
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As consultors of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care:
Bishop Joachim Ntahondereye of Muyinga, Burundi; Orochi Samuel Orach,
director of the National Office for Health Pastoral Care in Uganda;
Stefano Ojetti, vice president of the Italian Association of Catholic
Doctors, and Salvatore Pagliuca, vice president of UNITALSI (Italian
National Union for Transport of the Sick to Lourdes and International
Shrines).
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Fr. Jose Luiz Gomes de Vasconcelos of the clergy of the diocese of
Garanhuns, Brazil, rector of the interdiocesan seminary of Caruaru,
as auxiliary of the archdiocese of Fortaleza (area 14,813, population
3,622,000, Catholics 2,562,000, priests 332, permanent deacons 19,
religious 1,144), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Garanhuns in
1963 and ordained a priest in 1989. He studied in Rome before
returning to Brazil where he has worked in pastoral care and
education.
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Fr. Giovanni Crippa I.M.C., teacher and pastor in the archdiocese of
Feira de Santana, Brazil, as auxiliary of the archdiocese of Sao
Salvador da Bahia (area 3,859, population 3,210,878, Catholics
2,284,477, priests 283, permanent deacons 93, religious 1,070),
Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Besana Brianzana, Italy in 1958
and ordained a priest in 1985. He was active in missionary formation
in Turin and Rome before moving to Brazil in 2000 where he has worked
as a pastor and seminary professor.
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Bishop Adriano Ciocca Vasino of Floresta, Brazil, as bishop prelate
of Sao Felix (area 150,000, population 162,000, Catholics 139,000,
priests 20, permanent deacons 3, religious 43), Brazil.
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