Subject: VISnews 110215   
   Organization: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede   
   From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt    
      
   VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
      
   TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 30   
   ENGLISH   
   TUESDAY, 15 FEBRUARY 2011   
      
   SUMMARY:   
      
   - Programme of Pope's Pastoral Visit to Aquileia and Venice   
   - Other Pontifical Acts   
      
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   PROGRAMME OF POPE'S PASTORAL VISIT TO AQUILEIA AND VENICE   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 15 FEB 2011 (VIS) - The Holy See Press Office today published   
   the programme of Benedict XVI's forthcoming apostolic visit to the Italian   
   cities of Aquileia and Venice, due to take place on 7 and 8 May.   
      
     The Holy Father will depart from Rome by plane in the early afternoon of 7   
   May. On reaching Aquileia he will meet with local citizens in Piazza   
   Capitolo then move on to the basilica where he will attend a preparatory   
   assembly for the Congress of Aquileia, which is due to be held at Pentecost   
   2012. In the late afternoon the Pope will move on to Venice where he will   
   venerate the relics of St. Mark in the homonymous basilica.   
      
     On Sunday 8 May, Benedict XVI will preside at the celebration of the   
   Eucharist in the park of San Giuliano at Mestre, followed by the praying of   
   the Regina Coeli. During the afternoon, at St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, he   
   will preside at an ecclesial assembly to mark the end of the pastoral   
   diocesan visit. Subsequently, in the city's Basilica della Salute, he will   
   meet with representatives from the worlds of culture and the economy.   
   Finally, he will bless the basilica's recently-restored Chapel of the   
   Blessed Trinity and inaugurate the "Studium Generale Marcianum" Library.   
      
     The Holy Father's return flight will leave from Venice's Marco Polo   
   airport and is scheduled to arrive in Rome at 8.30 p.m.   
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   OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 15 FEB 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Evans   
   Chinyama Chinyemba O.M.I., superior of the delegation of Oblates of Mary   
   Immaculate in Zambia, as bishop of Mongu (area 88,000, population 696,000,   
   Catholics 70,400, priests 31, religious 90), Zambia. The bishop-elect was   
   born in Lukulu, Zambia in 1967 and ordained a priest in 2000. He succeeds   
   Bishop Paul Duffy O.M.I., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the   
   same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.   
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