Subject: VISnews 110726   
   Organization: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede   
   From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt    
      
   VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
      
   TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 139   
   ENGLISH   
   TUESDAY, 26 JULY 2011   
      
   SUMMARY:   
      
   - Funeral Mass for Cardinal Virgilio Noe   
   - Other Pontifical Acts   
      
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   FUNERAL MASS FOR CARDINAL VIRGILIO NOE   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 26 JUL 2011 (VIS) - This morning at the altar of the Cathedra   
   in the Vatican Basilica, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of   
   Cardinals, presided at a funeral Mass for Cardinal Virgilio Noe who died on   
   24 July at the age of 89. The Mass was concelebrated by a number of   
   cardinals, archbishops and bishops.   
      
     Cardinal Noe had been archpriest of the Vatican Basilica, vicar general of   
   the Pope for Vatican City State and president of the Fabric of St. Peter's.   
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   OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 26 JUL 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father:   
      
    - Appointed Bishop Luc Cyr of Valleyfield, Canada, as metropolitan   
   archbishop of Sherbrooke (area 8,000, population 338,000, Catholics 304.000,   
   priests 261, permanent deacons 24, religious 951), Canada. He succeeds   
   Archbishop Andre Gaumond, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the   
   same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age   
   limit.   
      
    - Appointed Msgr. Antonino Raspanti of the clergy of the archdiocese of   
   Trapani, Italy, professor of the history of spirituality at the Pontifical   
   Theological Faculty of St. John the Evangelist in Palermo, Italy, as bishop   
   of Acireale (area 665, population 228,500, Catholics 225,200, priests 168,   
   permanent deacons 9, religious 332), Italy. The bishop-elect was born in   
   Alcamo, Italy in 1959 and ordained a priest in 1982. He succeeds Bishop Pio   
   Vittorio Vigo, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese   
   the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.   
      
    - Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the apostolic   
   vicariate of Izabal, Guatemala, presented by Bishop Gabriel Penate   
   Rodriguez, in accordance with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.   
      
    - Appointed Bishop Mario Enrique Rios Montt C.M., auxiliary emeritus of the   
   archdiocese of Guatemala, Guatemala, as apostolic administrator "sede   
   vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis" of of the apostolic vicariate of Izabal,   
   Guatemala.   
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