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Christus Rex Information ServiceVATICAN CITY, JUN 27, 1996 (VIS) - John Paul II received today 60 participants in the annual assembly of R.O.A.C.O. (the Association for Assistance to the Eastern Churches) accompanied by Cardinal Achille Silvestrini, its president, and thanked them for their "generous solidarity with so many brothers of the Oriental Churches" and the help in relieving "their suffering."
"You are a precious help to the Pope, whom you allow to exercise more effectively the ministry of presiding over 'universal charity,'" he told the members and friends of R.O.A.C.O., an organization that falls under the competence of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.
John Paul II told them that "your heart, open above all to the needs of our brothers of the East, is a clear and strong sign of the love that transcends all limits and successfully reaches each situation, in this way manifesting the universal dimension of the Church, a mother who cares for everyone."
"You are especially committed to this path of unity because the service of charity that you propose is a sign of openness to all, without discrimination, and as such is a great service to encounter among the Churches. ... The Catholic Oriental Churches can bring, with your help, a great contribution to the cause of unity, under the inspiration of divine grace."
VATICAN CITY, JUN 27, 1996 (VIS) - The following metropolitan archbishops will receive the pallium from Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Basilica on June 29, the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, Apostles:
1. Cardinal Aloisio Lorscheider, archbishop of Aparecida, Brazil.
2. Archbishop Jean-Marie Untaani Compaore of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
3. Archbishop Francisco Alvarez Martinez of Toledo, Spain.
4. Archbishop Joseph Mittathany of Imphal, India.
5. Archbishop Tarcisius Resto Phanrang of Shillong, India.
6. Archbishop Isaias Duarte Cancino of Cali, Colombia.
7. Archbishop Gerard Defois of Reims, France.
8. Archbishop Harry Joseph Flynn of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, U.S.A.
9. Archbishop Christoph Schonborn of Vienna, Austria.
10. Archbishop Jerome George Hanus of Dubuque, U.S.A.
11. Archbishop Marcello Pinto Carvalheira of Paraiba, Brazil.
12. Archbishop Jose Paulino Rios Reynoso of Huancayo, Peru.
13. Archbishop Giuseppe Chiaretti of Perugia-Citta della Pieve, Italy.
14. Archbishop William Joseph Levada of San Francisco, U.S.A.
15. Archbishop Lucio Ignacio Baumgaertner of Cascavel, Brazil.
16. Archbishop Julian Barrio Barrio of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
17. Archbishop Luis Sanchez-Moreno Lira of Arequipa, Peru.
18. Archbishop Enrico Masseroni of Vercelli, Italy.
19. Archbishop Victor Hugo Martinez Contreras of Los Altos, Quetzaltenango-
Totonicapan, Guatemala.
20. Archbishop Aloisio Roque Oppermann of Uberaba, Brazil.
21. Archbishop Thaddee Ntihinyurwa of Kigali, Rwanda.
22. Archbishop Jose Maria Arancibia of Mendoza, Argentina.
23. Archbishop Alberto Taveira Correa of Palmas, Brazil.
24. Archbishop Salvatore De Giorgi of Palermo, Italy.
25. Archbishop Juliusz Paetz of Poznan, Poland.
26. Archbishop Benito Cocchi of Modena-Nonantola, Italy.
27. Archbishop Francis Eugene George of Portland in Oregon, U.S.A.
28. Archbishop Sigitas Tamkevicius of Kaunas, Lithuania.
29. Archbishop Patrick Altham Kelly of Liverpool, England.
30. Archbishop Claudio Hummes of Fortaleza, Brazil.
The following could not be present:
1. Cardinal Julius Riyadi Darmaatmadja of Jakarta, Indonesia.
2. Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil of Guwahati, India.
3. Archbishop Longinus Da Cunha of Ende, Indonesia.
VATICAN CITY, JUN 27, 1996 (VIS) - The Holy Father received in separate audiences this morning:
- Four prelates of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei on "ad limina" visit:
VATICAN CITY, JUN 27, 1996 (VIS) - The Holy Father made the following nominations:
- Cardinal Carlo Furno as pontifical delegate for the patriarchal basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy.
- Bishop Raphael S. Ndingi Mwana'a Nzeki of Nakuru as coadjutor archbishop of Nairobi (area 3,271, population 3,570,000, Catholics 870,000, priests 523, religious 2,077), Kenya.
- Fr. Silvano Tomasi, C.S., as apostolic nuncio in Ethiopia and Eritrea, elevating him at the same time to the titular archiepiscopal see of Cercina. The archbishop-elect was born in Casoni di Mussolente, Italy, in 1940 and was ordained a priest in 1965 for the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles (Scalabrinians). Since 1989 he has been secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People.
- As members of the Pontifical Academy for Life: Carla Giuliana Bolis, doctor, ordinary professor of general and comparative biology (Switzerland); Alberto Caturelli, philosopher, professor emeritus of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cordoba and president of the Argentine Catholic Society of Philosophy (Argentina); Denis Cavanagh, doctor, titular professor of obstetrics and gynecology at South Florida College of Medicine (U.S.A.); Jean Foyer, jurist, professor of private law at the University of Nanterre and Paris (France); Marie Odile Rethore, doctor, director of research at INSERM, associate professor at Descartes University and associate professor in fundamental genetics at the Faculty of Medicine of "Necker-Hopital des Enfantes Malades" (France); Sr. Marie Luc Rollet, religious of the "Petites Soeurs des Maternites Catholiques" Congregation, pediatric doctor (France); Joseph Seifert, philosopher, ordinary professor of philosophy and rector of the International Academy of Philosophy in Liechtenstein (Liechtenstein); Robert Spaemann, philosopher, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Monaco of Bavaria (Germany); Fr. Angelo Serra, S.J., genetic biologist, former ordinary professor of human genetics at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome (Italy); Gyula Gaizler, doctor, founder and president of the Hungarian Society of Bioethics and professor of bioethics at the "Pazmany Peter" Catholic University of Budapest (Hungary); Adolfo Turano, doctor, director of the Institute of Microbiology at the University of Brescia (Italy).
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