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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