SUMMARY:
- HOLY
FATHER RECEIVES PRESIDENT OF UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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AUDIENCES
- OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
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HOLY
FATHER RECEIVES PRESIDENT OF UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Vatican
City, 15 June 2012 (VIS) - The Holy See Press Office released the
following communique at midday today:
"This
morning the Holy Father received in audience Nassir Abdulaziz
al-Nasser, president of the sixty-sixth session of the General
Assembly of the United Nations. The president subsequently went on to
meet with Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone S.D.B. who was
accompanied by Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, secretary for Relations
with States.
"The
central theme of the cordial discussions was the role of the United
Nations Organisation, and especially of the General Assembly, in
conflict resolution. Particular consideration was given to the
conflicts currently affecting various regions of the world,
especially Africa and the Middle East, and to the serious
humanitarian emergencies they provoke.
"Attention
then turned to the Catholic Church's contribution to peace and
development, and to the importance of cooperation between religions
and cultures".
AUDIENCES
Vatican
City, 15 June 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in audience
twelve prelates from the Episcopal Conference of Colombia, on their
"ad limina" visit:
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Archbishop Ruben Salazar Gomez of Bogota.
- Bishop
Hector Luis Gutierrez Pabon of Engativa.
- Bishop
Luis Antonio Nova Rocha of Facatativa.
- Bishop
Juan Vicente Cordoba Villota S.J. of Fontibon.
- Bishop
Hector Julio Lopez Hurtado S.D.B. of Girardot.
- Bishop
Daniel Caro Borda of Soacha.
- Bishop
Fabio Suescun Mutis, military ordinary.
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Archbishop Ismael Rueda Sierra of Bucaramanga.
- Bishop
Camilo Fernando Castrellon Pizano S.D.B. of Barrancabermeja.
- Bishop
Victor Manuel Ochoa Cadavid of Malaga-Soata.
- Bishop
Carlos German Mesa Ruiz of Socorro y San Gil.
- Bishop
Luis Albeiro Cortes Rendon of Velez.
This
evening he is scheduled to receive in audience Cardinal William
Joseph Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith.
OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican
City, 15 June 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father:
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Appointed Bishop Valery Vienneau of Bathurst in Canada, Canada, as
metropolitan archbishop of Moncton (area 12,000, population 223,000,
Catholics 116,400, priests 48, permanent deacons 1, religious 265),
Canada. He succeeds Archbishop Andre Richard C.S.C., whose
resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy
Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
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Appointed Bishop Jean-Yves Riocreux of Pontoise, France, as bishop of
Basse-Terre et Pointe-a-Pitre (area 1,780, population 460,000,
Catholics 384,000, priests 56, permanent deacons 11, religious 183),
France (Antilles).
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Appointed Bishop Pascal Roland of Moulins, France, as bishop of
Belley-Ars (area 5,554, population 591,365, Catholics 352,600,
priests 177, permanent deacons 14, religious 287), France. He
succeeds Bishop Guy Bagnard, whose resignation from the pastoral care
of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the
age limit.
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Appointed Fr. Harry Entwistle as the first ordinary of the Personal
Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross. The Ordinariate was
today erected on the territory of the Australian Catholic Bishops'
Conference by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, under
the terms of the Apostolic Constitution "Anglicanorum coetibus".
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