VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXII - # 021
DATE 29-01-2015

Summary:
- Audiences
- Other Pontifical Acts

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 Audiences
 Vatican City, 29 January 2015 (VIS) - Today, the Holy Father received in
audience:
 - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, prefect of the Congregation for the
Evangelisation of Peoples;
 - Archbishop Jan Romeo Pawlowski, apostolic nuncio in the Republic of Congo
and in Gabon;
 - Archbishop Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo of Belo Horizonte, Brazil;
 - Bishop Guglielmo Borghetti, coadjutor of Albenga-Imperia, Italy;
 - German Cardona Gutierrez, ambassador of Colombia, on his farewell visit;
 - Senator Claudio Zin, with an Italian-Latin American parliamentary
delegation.

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 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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