VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
   YEAR XXII - # 140   
   DATE 24-07-2015   
      
   Summary:   
   - New members and substitutes for the upcoming Synod on the Family   
   - Other Pontifical Acts   
      
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    New members and substitutes for the upcoming Synod on the Family   
    Vatican City, 24 July 2015 (VIS) - With regard to the Ordinary General   
   Assembly   
   of the Synod of Bishops, to take place in the Vatican from 4 to 25 October on   
   the theme "The vocation and mission of the family in the Church and   
   contemporary   
   world", we publish a further list of the members and substitutes elected by the   
   various Episcopal Conferences and confirmed by the Holy Father.   
    AFRICA   
    Cote d'Ivoire   
    Member: Bishop Ignace Bessi Dogbo of Katiola, president of the National   
   Episcopal Commission for the Lay Apostolate.   
    Equatorial Guinea   
    Member: Bishop Juan Matogo Oyana, C.M.F., of Bata.   
    Sudan   
    Member: Archbishop Paulino Lukudu Loro, M.C.C.J., of Juba;   
    Substitute: Bishop Michael Didi Adgum Mangoria of El Obeid.   
    Zimbabwe   
    Member: Bishop Xavier Johnsai Munyongani of Gweru.   
    AMERICA   
    Paraguay   
    Member: Bishop Miguel Angel Cabello Almada of Concepcion en Paraguay;   
    Substitute: Bishop Pierre Laurent Jubinville, C.S.Sp., of San Pedro.   
    ASIA   
    India   
    2nd Substitute: Bishop Lawrence Pius Dorairaj of Dharmapuri.   
    Iran   
    Member: Archbishop Ramzi Garmou of Teheran of the Chaldeans, patriarchal   
   administrator of Ahwaz of the Chaldeans;   
    Substitute: Archbishop Neshan Karakeheyan, patriarchal administrator of   
   Ispahan, Esfaan of the Armenians.   
    Thailand   
    Member: Bishop Silvio Siripong Charatsri of Chanthaburi;   
    Substitute: Archbishop Louis Chamniern Santisukniran of Thare and Nonseng.   
    East Timor   
    Member: Bishop Basilio Do Nascimento of Baucau, president of the Episcopal   
   Conference;   
    Substitute: Bishop Norberto Do Amaral of Maliana.   
    EUROPE   
    International Episcopal Conference of Sts. Cyril and Methodius   
    Member: Bishop Ladislav Nemet, S.V.D., of Zrenjanin, Serbia.   
    Latvia   
    Member: Archbishop Zbignevs Stankevics of Riga;   
    Substitute: Bishop Janis Bulis of Rezekne-Aglona, president of the Episcopal   
   Conference.   
    Scandinavia   
    Member: Bishop Teemu Sippo, S.C.I., of Helsinki, Finland;   
    Substitute: Bishop Czeslaw Kozon of Copenhagen, Denmark.   
    OCEANIA   
    Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands   
    Member: Bishop Anton Bal of Kundiawa, representing the "Commission for Family   
   Life".   
      
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    Other Pontifical Acts   
    Vatican City, 24 July 2015 (VIS) - The Holy Father has appointed Bishop Victor   
   Manuel Ochoa Cadavid as bishop of Cucuta (area 2,200, population 891,383,   
   Catholics 804,236, priests 166, permanent deacons 8, religious 212), Colombia.   
   He succeeds Bishop Julio Cesar Vidal Ortiz, whose resignation from the pastoral   
   care of the same diocese in accordance with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of   
   Canon Law, was accepted by the Holy Father.   
      
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