Appointed

Saturday, Jan. 19

E Father Gerardo Zerdin Bukovec as coadjutor of the apostolic vicariate of San Ramon, Peru.

E Father Jose Luis Escobar Alas as auxiliary bishop of San Vicente, El Salvador.

E Father Genesio Tarasco as bureau chief of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

Tuesday, Jan. 22

E Assented to the election by the Synod of Bishops of the Armenian Catholic Church of Archpriest Kevork Khazoumian as bishop of Jerusalem and Amman.

Wednesday, Jan. 23

E Father Jose Song Sui-Wan as bishop of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira, Brazil, following the resignation of Bishop Walter de Azevedo, who reached 75, the age limit.

Friday, Jan. 25

E Msgr. Domenico Calcagno as bishop of Savona-Noli, Italy.

E Bishop Carlito J. Cenzon as apostolic vicar of Baguio, Philippines.

Met With

Saturday, Jan. 19

E Four members of the bishops' conference of Vietnam on their ad limina visits, which heads of dioceses make every five years to review their diocese with the Pope and Vatican officials.

E Top officials of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

E Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops.

Monday, Jan. 21

E Five members of the bishops' conference of Vietnam on their ad limina visits.

Wednesday, Jan. 23

E Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

Friday, Jan. 25

E Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople.

E Greek Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim of Antioch and all the East.

E Catholicos Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV of the Assyrian Church of the East.

E Archbishop Anastas of Tirana, Durres and all Albania.

E Metropolitan Pitirim of Volokolamsk and Juriev, Russia.

E Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.