SUMMARY:
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Audiences
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Other Pontifical Acts
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Audiences
Vatican
City, 29 January 2015 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father received in
audience:
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Cardinal Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the
Evangelisation of Peoples;
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Archbishop Jan Romeo Pawlowski, apostolic nuncio in the Republic of
Congo and in Gabon;
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Archbishop Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo of Belo Horizonte, Brazil;
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Bishop Guglielmo Borghetti, coadjutor of Albenga-Imperia, Italy;
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German Cardona Gutierrez, ambassador of Colombia, on his farewell
visit;
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Senator Claudio Zin, with an Italian-Latin American parliamentary
delegation.
Other
Pontifical Acts
Vatican
City, 29 January 2015 (VIS) – The Holy Father has appointed Rev.
Fr. Jean-Bertin Nadonye Ndongo, O.F.M. Cap., as bishop of Lolo (area
10,000, population 220,000, Catholics 195,000, priests 22, religious
25), Democratic Republic of Congo. The bishop-elect was born in
Botuzu, Democratic Republic of Congo, in 1965, gave his perpetual
vows in 1992, and was ordained a priest in 1993. He holds a
licentiate in theology from the Catholic University of Kinshasa and
has served in a number of roles, including parish priest of the
“Sacre-Coeur de Jesus” parish in Bwamanda and member of the
economic council for the diocese of Molegbe; formator and rector of
the “Maison d'Etudes” in Kinshasa; vice-minister and subsequently
provincial minister of the Capuchin Friars in the Democratic Republic
of Congo and president of the Conference of Capuchin Friars of
Central and Western Africa (CONCAO); and president of the Assembly of
Major Superiors. He is currently definitor general of the Capuchin
Friars Minor, Rome. He succeeds Bishop Ferdinand Maemba Liwoke, whose
resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese upon reaching
the age limit was accepted by the Holy Father.
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