VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
   YEAR XXV - # 230   
   DATE 23-12-2015   
      
   Summary:   
   - Other Pontifical Acts   
   - Notice   
      
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    Other Pontifical Acts   
    Vatican City, 23 December 2015 (VIS) - The Holy Father has appointed:   
    - Msgr. Pierantonio Pavanello as bishop of Adria-Rovigo (area 1,193,   
   population   
   204,400, Catholics 198,000, priests 155, permanent deacons 5, religious 207),   
   Italy. The bishop-elect was born in Bassano del Grappa, Italy in 1955 and was   
   ordained a priest in 1982. He holds a doctorate in canon law from the   
   Pontifical   
   Gregorian University and has served in a number of roles in the diocese of   
   Vicenza, including parish vicar, secretary of the presbyteral council and   
   diocesan pastoral council. He is currently episcopal chancellor, adjunct   
   judicial vicar of the Triveneto Regional Ecclesiastic Tribunal, and lecturer in   
   canon law at the diocesan seminary. In 2005 he was named Chaplain of His   
   Holiness. He succeeds Bishop Lucio Soravito De Franceschi, whose resignation   
   from the pastoral care of the same diocese upon reaching the age limit was   
   accepted by the Holy Father.   
    - appointed Fr. Francois Touvet as bishop of Chalons (area 6,501, population   
   265,000, Catholics 258,500, priests 76, permanent deacons 17, religious 76),   
   France. The bishop-elect was born in Paris, France in 1965 and was ordained a   
   priest in 1992. He holds a licentiate in theology from the Institut Catholique   
   de Lyon, and has served in a number of roles in the dioceses of Dijon -   
   including pastoral vicar, parish priest, diocesan chaplain, dean, and vicar   
   general - and Langres, where he served as pastor of the Cathedral and episcopal   
   vicar for the southern pastoral zone. He is currently vicar general of Langres.   
   He succeeds Bishop Gilbert Louis, whose resignation from the pastoral care of   
   the same diocese upon reaching the age limit was accepted by the Holy Father.   
    - appointed Fr. Joao Muniz Alves, O.F.M., as bishop prelate of Xingu (area   
   368,092, population 429,000, Catholics 330,000, priests 30, religious 67),   
   Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Carema, Brazil in 1961, gave his religious   
   vows in 1986 and was ordained a priest in 1993. He holds a licentiate and   
   doctorate in philosophy from the Pontifical Antonianum University and a   
   doctorate in moral theology from the Pontifical Alphonsianum Academy, and has   
   served in a number of pastoral roles including parish vicar, deputy master of   
   postulants, parish priest, definitor of the Francescan vice-Province "Nossa   
   Senhora da Assuncao" in Bacabal, member of the presbyteral council, provincial   
   minister and visitator general of the Franciscan Province of Mozambique. He is   
   currently guardian of the Franciscan community at Sao Luis do Maranhao, parish   
   vicar, formator and professor of moral theology. He succeeds Bishop Erwin   
   Krautler, C.PP.S., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same   
   territorial prelature upon reaching the age limit was accepted by the Holy   
   Father.   
    - Fr. Justin Mulenga as bishop of Mpika (area 86,135, population 548,000,   
   Catholics 133,511, priests 36, religious 84), Zambia. The bishop-elect was born   
   in Rosa Mission, Kasama, Zambia in 1955 and was ordained a priest in 1993. He   
   has served in a number of pastoral roles, including parish vicar, bursar   
   general   
   of the archdiocese of Kasama, parish priest, and episcopal vicar for religious   
   and the deaconry of Mbala. He is currently president of the association of   
   diocesan clergy and pastoral coordinator.   
      
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    Notice   
    Vatican City, 23 December 2015 (VIS) - During the Christmas holiday there will   
   be no VIS bulletin on Thursday 24 or Friday 25 December. The next bulletin will   
   be transmitted on Monday 28 December. The Vatican Information Service wishes   
   its   
   readers a very happy and holy Christmas.   
      
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