15 Bishops Named to Special Council for Africa

VATICAN CITY, OCT. 23, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Archbishop Nikola Eterovic, secretary-general of the Synod of Bishops, revealed today the names of the 15 members of the Special Council for Africa of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops.

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The assembly for Africa of the synod elected 12 members of the council, while Benedict XVI appointed three.

Below are the names of the 15 members:

— Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, archbishop of Durban, South Africa;
— Cardinal Francis Arinze, retired prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments;

— Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, archbishop of Cape Coast, Ghana, president of the Association of Episcopal Conferences of Western Africa;
— Cardinal Theodore-Adrien Sarr, archbishop of Dakar, Senegal, first vice president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar;

— Cardinal John Njue, archbishop of Nairobi, Kenya, president of the Kenya episcopal conference;
— Archbishop Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo;

— Archbishop Norbert Wendelin Mtega of Songea, Tanzania;
— Archbishop John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan of Abuja, Nigeria;

— Archbishop Simon Ntamwana of Gitega, Burundi, president of the Association of Episcopal Conferences for Central Africa;
— Archbishop Cornelius Fontem Esua of Bamenda, Cameroon;

— Archbishop Odon Marie Arsene Razanakolona of Antananarivo, Madagascar;
— Bishop Youssef Ibrahim Sarraf of Le Caire of the Chaldeans, Egypt;

— Bishop Maroun Elias Lahham of Tunis, Tunis;
— Bishop Edmond Djitangar of Sarh, Chad;

— Bishop Francisco Joao Silota M. Afr. of Chimoio, Mozambique, second vice president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar.

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