Subject: VISnews 110921   
   Organization: VIS - Ufficio Stampa della Santa Sede   
   From: Vatican Information Service - Eng - txt    
      
   VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
      
   TWENTY FIRST YEAR - N. 158   
   ENGLISH   
   WEDNESDAY, 21 SEPTEMBER 2011   
      
   SUMMARY:   
      
   - Pope Imposes the Pallium on Cardinal Scola   
   - Other Pontifical Acts   
      
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   POPE IMPOSES THE PALLIUM ON CARDINAL SCOLA   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 21 SEP 2011 (VIS) - This morning in the Apostolic Palace of   
   Castelgandolfo, Benedict XVI imposed the pallium on Cardinal Angelo Scola,   
   archbishop of Milan, Italy. The pallium is an embroidered woollen band worn   
   by metropolitan archbishops as a symbol of their authority and their   
   communion with Rome. The ecclesiastical province of which Cardinal Scola is   
   metropolitan archbishop includes the ten dioceses in the Italian region of   
   Lombardy: Milan, Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Crema, Cremona, Lodi, Mantua, Pavia   
   and Vigevano.   
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   OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS   
      
   VATICAN CITY, 21 SEP 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father:   
      
    - Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of   
   Indianapolis, U.S.A., presented by Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein O.S.B., in   
   accordance with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.   
      
    - Appointed Bishop Leonardo Ulrich Steiner O.F.M., prelate of Sao Felix,   
   Brazil and secretary general of the National Conference of Bishops of   
   Brazil, as auxiliary of Brasilia (area 5,814, population 2,196,000,   
   Catholics 1,507,000, priests 294, permanent deacons 70, religious 652),   
   Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Forquilhinha, Brazil in 1950. He made   
   his religious profession in the order of Friars Minor in 1976 and was   
   ordained a priest in 1978. Following studies in Brazil and Rome he worked as   
   a vice pastor and pastor, then as formator, master of novices and professor   
   of philosophy. He was ordained a bishop in 2005.   
      
    - Appointed Bishop Giuseppe Versaldi of Alessandria, Italy, as president of   
   the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See, at the same time   
   elevating him to the dignity of archbishop. He succeeds Cardinal Velasio De   
   Paolis C.S., whose resignation from the same office the Holy Father   
   accepted, upon having reached the age limit.   
      
    - Appointed Fr. Lucio Angel Vallejo Balda of the clergy of the diocese of   
   Astorga, Spain, administrator general of the bishopric of Astorga, secretary   
   of the diocesan council for economic affairs and pastor of thirteen   
   parishes, as secretary of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the   
   Holy See.   
      
    - Appointed Marco Buonocore, head archivist of the Vatican Apostolic   
   Library, as president of the Pontifical Roman Academy of Archaeology.   
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