VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
YEAR XXVI - # 4
DATE 08-01-2016

Summary:
- Other Pontifical Acts

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 Other Pontifical Acts
 Vatican City, 8 January 2016 (VIS) - The Holy Father has appointed:
 - Fr. Juan Carlos Elizalde Espinal as bishop of Vitoria (area 350, population
329,000, Catholics 298,000, priests 291, permanent deacons 5, religious 738),
Spain. The bishop-elect was born in Mezkiritz, Spain in 1960 and was ordained a
priest in 1987. He holds a licentiate in spiritual theology from the Pontifical
University of Comillas in Madrid, and has served in a number of roles in the
archdiocese of Pamplona y Tudela, including director of diocesan university
residences, parish priest and professor of theology and head of pastoral
ministry of the Public University of Navarra. He is currently episcopal vicar
of
the zone of Pamplona-Cuenca-Roncesvalles. He succeeds Bishop Miguel Jose
Asurmendi Aramendia, S.D.B., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the
same diocese upon reaching the age limit was accepted by the Holy Father.
 - Cardinal Ricardo Blazquez Perez, archbishop of Valladolid, Spain, as member
of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA).

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