VATICAN: POPE: TITULAR CHURCH FOR MAZOMBWE

CARDINAL MAZOMBWE TO TAKE POSSESSION OF TITULAR CHURCH

VATICAN CITY, 15 JAN 2011 (VIS REPORTS) - The Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff today announced that at 6 p.m. on Saturday 26 March Cardinal Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, archbishop emeritus of Lusaka, Zambia, will take possession of the title of St. Emerentiana at Tor Fiorenza, Via Lucrino 53, Rome.

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IN MEMORIAM

VATICAN CITY, 17 MAR 2011 (VIS) - The following prelates died in recent weeks:

- Bishop Juan Garcia-Santacruz Ortiz of Guadix, Spain, on 12 March at the age of 78.

- Bishop Oswald Georg Hirmer, emeritus of Umtata, South Africa, on 5 March at the age of 81.