Pope Francis reconfirms leadership of Congregation for Oriental Churches, Council
for Christian Unity
(Vatican Radio) The Pope also renewed the mandate of the following members: Ibrahim
Isaac Sidrak, Patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts; Raphael Louis Sako I, Patriarch
of Babylonia of the Chaldeans. The pontiff also appointed as new members: Cardinal
Agostino Vallini, Vicar General of his holiness for the Diocese of Rome; William Charles
Skurla, Archbishop of Pittsburgh of the Byzantines ; Secretary of State Pietro Parolin,
Titular Archbishop of Acquapendente ; Gerhard Ludwig Müller , Archbishop - Bishop
Emeritus of Regensburg, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith;
Vincent Gerard Nichols , Archbishop of Westminster; Mario Aurelio Poli, Archbishop
of Buenos Aires; Joseph Edward Kurtz , Archbishop of Louisville; Walmor Oliveira de
Azevedo, Archbishop of Belo Horizonte; James Denis Hart, Archbishop of Melbourne;
Joseph Werth , Bishop of the Transfiguration in Novosibirsk.
The Pontiff
also confirmed the following members for another five years: Cardinals Christoph Schönborn
and Jean -Louis Tauran, His Beatitude Fouad Twal; Monsignors Berhaneyesus Demerew
Souraphiel , Piero Marini, Ján Babjak , Antoine Audo, until the conclusion of their
respective mandates; Cardinals Tarcisio Bertone, Dionigi Tettamanzi, Angelo Scola,
Marc Ouellet, André Vingt -Trois, Angelo Bagnasco, Reinhard Marx, Timothy Michael
Dolan, William Joseph Levada, Francis Monterisi, Kurt Koch, Fernando Filoni, Frederick
Edwin O ' Brien and His Excellency Monsignor Peter Bürcher.
The Holy Father
made the following appointments of consultors: Dimitrios Salachas, Titular Bishop
of Grazianopoli; the Reverend Father Massimo Pampaloni, SJ; Fr. Philippe Luisier,
SJ; Fr. Michael Kuchera , SJ; Fr. Lorenzo Lorusso , OP; Fr. Georges Ruyssen , SJ;
Fr. Thomas Pott , OSB ; Sac . Pablo Gefaell , PG Ronald Roberson , CSP , Bishop Paul
Pallath , P. Adam Konštanc , OP; Bishop Guido Marini , and Sac. George Gallaro.
The Pope confirmed the following consultors: Monsignors Christo Proykov; G. Hanna
Alwan; Borys Gudziak , and the Reverend Fathers Abbott D. Michel Van Parys , OSB;
Bishop Michel Berger; Archbishop Osvaldo Raineri; Archimandrite Jan Sergiusz Gajek;
Bishop Natale Loda; Archpriest Mitr. Vasyl Hovera .
Pope Francis has also
reconfirmed the president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity,
Cardinal Kurt Koch and secretary Msgr. Brian Farrell, titular Bishop of Abitinae .
He reconfirmed the members and consultors of the Pontifical Council until the end
of their mandates .
The Pope also appointed as consultants to the Commission
for Religious Relations with the Jews: Christopher Charles Prowse, Bishop of Sale
( Australia ), Rev. Fr. Christian Rutishauser , SJ (Switzerland); Member of the Jewish-Catholic
Dialogue Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of Germany and Switzerland; Prof.
Gregor Maria Hoff ( Federal Rep. of Germany) , Professor of Fundamental Theology and
Ecumenical Theology at the University of Salzburg and Member of the Jewish-Catholic
Dialogue Commission of the German Episcopal Conference .