VATICAN CITY, APRIL 20, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI named Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski as president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Ministry.
The Vatican press office announced Saturday that the former bishop of Radom, Poland, was given the title of archbishop and was chosen to replace Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragán, who resigned for reasons of age.
Archbishop Zimowski, 60, had been a member of the Roman Curia during the pontificate of John Paul II, as part of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith while Cardinal Ratzinger was the prefect.
At this time, Father Zimowski participated in the writing of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and collaborated in the Polish section of Vatican Radio. He also served as professor of ecclesiology at the Catholic University of Lublin and at the Stephan Wyszynski of Warsaw.
Pope John Paul II named him as Bishop of Radom in 2002. Archbishop Zimowski will be the third president of the council, which was created in 1985.
