On the occasion of the Seventh Ordinary General Congress of the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, the Prelate, in accord with what is prescribed in the statutes of the Prelature, made the following appointments of members of the General Council and the Central Advisory:

October 16, 2002 Msgr. Fernando Ocáriz
Vicar General;

Rev. Manuel Dacal
Central Vicar Secretary;

Pedro Pérez Botella, Carlos Cavazzoli, Carlo De Marchi, Msgr. Ernst Burkhart and Pablo Elton
Members of the General Council;

October 19, 2002 Marlies Kücking, Isabel Sánchez Serrano, María Dolores Alonso Uribarri, Sarah Cassidy, Marta Bertolaso, Gabriela Eisenring, Loudette Serra and Gabriela Carrasco
Members of the Central Advisory;

In addition, on the 16th and 19th, respectively, the Prelate appointed the following regional delegates

The new delegates for the men’s branch are: Lucas Niklison, for Argentina; Rev. Antonio Borràs Cabacés for Australia and Canada; Jorge Mitsuru Matsuoka, for Brazil; Rev. Ricardo Acosta, for northern and southern Central America; Rev. Carlos María González Saracho, for Colombia and Ecuador; Luis Emilio Donoso, for Chile, Peru and Uruguay; Julien Nagore, for France, Belgium and The Netherlands; José Gabriel de la Rica, for Germany, Austria and Switzerland; Francisco Mitjans, for Great Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia; Antonio Mélich, for Japan, India and Southeast Asia; Msgr. Roberto Lozano Morales, for Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa; Carlos Llano Cifuentes, for Mexico; Rafael Martín Bravo, for the Philippines; Horacio Antúnez, for Poland and the Baltic countries; Rev. Antonio Barbosa, for Portugal and Lebanon; Msgr. Ignacio Celaya Urrutia, for Spain; and Ignacio Rodríguez Mayz, for Venezuela and Puerto Rico.

The new delegates for the women’s branch are: Verónica Noto, for Argentina; Magdalena Rábago Díaz, for Australia and Canada; Heloisa Vianna, for Brazil; María Teresa Calvo Vallana, for northern and southern Central America; Milagrosa Hernáez García, for Colombia and Ecuador; Speria Cayo Tamburrino, for Chile, Peru and Uruguay; Mónica Albelda Marco, for France, Belgium and The Netherlands; Barbara Schellenberger, for Germany, Austria and Switerland; Juana María Sandoval, for Great Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia; Emmanuelle Antón Borja, for the Ivory Coast, Congo, and Cameroon; Janet Ong, for Japan, India, and Southeast Asia; Marilyn D'Souza, for Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa; María Pía Chirinos, for Poland and the Baltic countries; María Augusta Castanheira Callado, for Portugal and Lebanon; Georgina Piñero, for Puerto Rico and Venezuela and Montserrat Villaplana Durán, for Spain;.

Also appointed by decree of the Prelate are:

October 16, 2002 Rev. Guillaume Derville
Central Spiritual Director;

Msgr. Carlos Nannei
Agent for Petitions;

Msgr. Francisco Vives Unzué
Chancellor of the Prelatic Curia;

October 18, 2002 Rev. Javier López Ruiz
Regional Vicar Secretary of Belgium;

Marc Chatanay and Vincent Aubin
Members of the Regional Commission of France;

October 19, 2002 José Roberto Hernández Flores
Member of the Regional Commission of Northern Central America;

Bernald Antonio Campos Retana
Member of the Regional Commission of Southern Central America;

Eduardo Mario Mutto Álvarez, Andrej Pedro Rant Lesar and Pablo Carlos Sambucetti Nieto
Members of the Regional Commission of Argentina;

Rev. Ferran Madrigal Alós
Spiritual Director and member of the Delegation of the Baltic states;

Rev. Eugenio Carlos Callioli
Regional Vicar Secretary of Brazil;

Renato José de Moraes, Cláudio Alberto Rigo da Silva and Frederico Ricardo Ferreira de Oliveira
Members of the Regional Commission of Brazil;

Rev. Fábio Henrique Carvalheiro
Regional Spiritual Director of Brazil;

Rev. José Sastre Parri
Spiritual Director of the Delegation of the Ivory Coast;

Rev. Ramón Herrando Prat de la Riba
Regional Vicar of Spain; *

Luis Sánchez Socías, Fernando Cabello García and Antonio Herráiz Solla
Members of the Regional Commission of Spain;

Eugen Graas and Anton Gerard Schins
Members of the Regional Commission of the Netherlands;

Dino Collevati
Member of the Regional Commission of Italy;

Rev. Andrea Mardegan
Regional Spiritual Director of Italy;

Alejandro Cid de Orta
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Uruguay;

Rev. Agustín María Sapriza Arias
Spiritual Director of the Delegation of Uruguay;

October 20, 2002 Pierre-Yves Cortes
Member of the Regional Commission of Canada;

Rev. Francisco José Triadó Ivern
Regional Vicar Secretary of Ecuador;

Josemaría Vázquez Vega, Juan Carlos Vásconez Donoso and Juan Miguel Rodríguez Llamas
Members of the Regional Commission of Ecuador;

Msgr. Tomás Gutiérrez Calzada
Regional Spiritual Director of Spain;

Rev. Juan Carlos Aramendi Tapia
Regional Vicar Secretary of Puerto Rico;

Rev. Javier Bernaola Hortigüela
Member of the Regional Commission of Puerto Rico;

October 21, 2002 José Félix Pons de Villanueva
Member of the Regional Commission of Germany;

Rev. Humberto José Pro de la Torre
Spiritual Director and Member of the Regional Commission of Australia;

Emanuele Bertolaso
Member of the Regional Commission of Austria;

Rev. Javier López Ruiz
Regional Spiritual Director of Belgium;

Luís Antonio Carvalho de Campos
Member of the Regional Commission of Brazil;

Rev. Antonio Segarra Molins
Vicar Secretary of the Delegation of Cameroon;

Ademar Mendes Pachiani
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Cameroon;

Rev. Andrés Fernández Suárez
Spiritual Director of the Delegation of Cameroon;

Jorge Mario Jaramillo Echeverry
Member of the Regional Commission of Colombia;

Rev. Francisco Javier Valdés de Elizalde
Spiritual Director of the Delegation of Congo;

Rodrigo Hoyl Moreno and Francisco Javier Valdés González
Members of the Regional Commission of Chile;

Rev. Guillermo Mönckeberg Balmaceda Regional Spiritual Director of Chile;

Noe Anthony Kintana Palaña and Arnold Escobar Chaluangco Members of the Regional Commission of the Philippines;

Andrew James Curtis
Member of the Regional Commission of Great Britain;

Rev. Gavan Joseph Jennings
Regional Vicar Secretary of Ireland;

Barry Joseph O'Grady
Member of the Regional Commission of Ireland;

Rev. José Renato Katsushi Sasano
Regional Vicar Secretary of Japan;

Ichiro Mukoyama
Member of the Regional Commission of Japan;

Rev. Toshihiro Sakai
Regional Spiritual Director of Japan;

Rev. Francisco Ugarte Corcuera
Regional Vicar of Mexico *;

Msgr. Rafael Fiol Mateos
Regional Vicar Secretary of Mexico;

Rogelio Vega Llanas, Reinaldo López-Bosch Larenas, Rodolfo Hernández Azcúnaga and Manuel Sepúlveda Iguíniz
Members of the Regional Commission of Mexico;

Rev. César Abraham Corcuera García
Regional Vicar Secretary of Peru;

Antonio Mabres Torelló
Member of the Regional Commission of Peru;

Rev. Juan Armas Calasich
Regional Spiritual Director of Peru;

Rev. José Rafael Santos do Espírito Santo
Regional Vicar of Portugal *;

Duarte Manuel Brandão de Azevedo Pereira Pinto and José
Miguel Alves Correia Pires
Members of the Regional Commission of Portugal;

Rev. João Paulo Valente Pires Bela Pimentel
Regional Spiritual Director of Portugal;

Claro Nieva Laguilles
Member of the Delegation of Southeast Asia;

Rev. Harry Wong Yim Hung
Spiritual Director of the Delegation of Southeast Asia;

October 22, 2002 Rev. José Domingo Gabiola Torco
Vicar Secretary of the Delegation of India;

Rev. Jesús Qui Nieto
Spiritual Director of the Delegation of Jerusalem;

October 24, 2002 Rev. Peter Rutz
Vicar of the Delegation of Switzerland;*

Msgr. Agustín López Kindler
Vicar Secretary of the Delegation of Switzerland;

Pablo Junquera Derteano Member of the Council of the Delegation of Switzerland;

October 26, 2002 Teresa Iglesias Valdés, Sophie Michaux and Delphine Liegeois
Members of the Regional Advisory of France;

Moira Walsh and Jacqueline Taylor Members of the Regional Advisory of The United States;

Gloria Chiappe Barchi, Cecilia Barrantes Campos and Lourdes Calle González
Members of the Regional Advisory of Peru;

Liza Cabungcal Ladera Member of the Regional Advisory of the Philippines;

October 28, 2002 Rev. Thomas Bohlin Regional Vicar of the United States *;

Timothy Charles Hogan and Rev. George Michael Rossman
Members of the Regional Commission of the United States;

Rev. Arne Albert Panula
Regional Spiritual Director of the United States;

Álvaro Vieira Calabrese, José Nicolás Briceño Párraga, José
Gabriel Benzo Rodríguez and Enrique Torija Riosalido
Members of the Regional Commission of Venezuela;

Rev. Juan Francisco Duque Chávez
Regional Spiritual Director of Venezuela;

October 29, 2002 Rev. Franz D'Agostino
Regional Spiritual Director of the Netherlands;

Gemma Mínguez Sanz, María Victoria López Pérez and María Victoria Domingo de Miguel
Members of the Regional Advisory of Spain;

October 30, 2002 Rev. Ignacio González Sotos
Regional Vicar of Nigeria *;

Rev. Gabriel Ysasi Fernández de Bobadilla
Regional Vicar Secretary of Nigeria;

Felix Chukwuka Asogwa and Jesús Núñez Valero
Members of the Regional Commission of Nigeria;

Rev. Boniface Nnayo Okafor
Regional Spiritual Director of Nigeria;

María Dolores Guevara Masis and Marisabel Fajardo Godoy
Members of the Regional Advisory of Northern Central America;

Eline Mendonça Bulcão, Maria de Fátima Mendes, Carla Ninomiya, Odete Pinto Ferreira and Margarita Fraile Casares
Members of the Regional Advisory of Brazil;

Márcia Restiffe
Member of the Council of the Delegation of Congo;

Federica Colzani
Members of the Regional Advisory of Italy;

Jane Muthoni Wathuta and Shirley Amon
Members of the Regional Advisory of Kenya;

Matilde de Tezanos
Members of the Regional Advisory of Nigeria;

Rosário Líbano Monteiro, María Vitoria Pedroso de Lima de Almeida e Sousa and Ana Alexandra Paupério Ribeirinho Machado
Members of the Regional Advisory of Portugal;

Ana Isabel Arzola Muñiz and Virginia May Burnett Disdier
Members of the Regional Advisory of Puerto Rico;

October 31, 2002 Rev. Jaime Guixà Martínez
Vicar of the Delegation of the
Dominican Republic;

Kazuko Nakajima
Member of the Regional Advisory of Japan;

Claudia Pasapera Garvich
Members of the Council of the Delegation of India;

Marta Guerra López de Castro
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Kazakhstan;

María Dolores Bobo Ruiz
Member of the Regional Advisory of the Netherlands;

Siobhan OhAodha and Mary Churchward
Members of the Regional Advisory of Ireland;

Christiane Kadjo
Members of the Council of the Delegation of the Ivory Coast;

María Potestad Tellechea
Members of the Council of the Delegation of the Baltic States;

November 2, 2002 Rev. Miguel Ángel González Diestro
Vicar of the Delegation of South Africa *;

Rev. Manuel Alberto Nogueira da Costa Graça
Vicar Secretary of the Delegation of South Africa;

Rosa María Virgili Perxes
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Switzerland;

November 4, 2002 Maria Gruber
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Scandinavia;

Miriam Josefina Peñuñuri Soto, Natalia Hernández Ibarra, Graciela Gómez Minakata and Luz Elena Dávila Aguayo
Members of the Regional Advisory of Mexico;

November 5, 2002 José Alfredo Vela Cuéllar and Raúl Giovanni Pleitez Flores
Members of the Council of the Delegation of El Salvador;

Rev. Eddy Mauricio Palacios Vásquez
Spiritual Director and Members of the Council of the Delegation of El Salvador;

Rev. Normann Insam
Vicar of the Delegation of Rome, Italy;

Rev. Mauro Leonardi
Vicar Secretary of the Delegation of
Rome, Italy;

Antonio Gentina
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Rome, Italy;

Alberto Piazza
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Palermo, Italy;

Rev. Ermanno Tubini
Spiritual Director of the Delegation of Rome, Italy;

Rev. Giuseppe Brighina
Spiritual Director of the Delegation of Palermo, Italy;

Macarena Latorre Astaburuaga and Jessica Suárez Moraga
Members of the Regional Advisory of Chile;

María Isabel Luque Farfán and Adela
López Martínez
Members of the Regional Advisory of Colombia;

Paola Durán Solis
Member of the Regional Advisory of Ecuador;

Anne Davies, Sophia Pain and Anne Marie Millington
Members of the Regional Advisory of Great Britain;

November 6, 2002 Rev. José Domingo Gómez López
Vicar Secretary of the Delegation of Kazakhstan;

Ángel José Terranova Latorre
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Kazakhstan;

November 7, 2002 Rosario de Juana Zubizarreta, Suzel Obiols Del Cid and Cecilia Echeverría Falla
Members of the Regional Advisory of Southern Central America;

November 9, 2002 Inés Casillo
Member of the Regional Advisory of Austria;

November 11, 2002 Bergund Fuchs and María Manuel-Rimbau
Members of the Regional Advisory of Germany

November 12, 2002 Rev. Javier Contreras Beorlegui
Vicar of the Delegation of East Madrid;

José Milán Fitera and Pedro Laporte Fernández-Alfaro
Members of the Council of the Delegation of East Madrid;

Javier Caballero Sánchez
Members of the Council of the Delegation of West Madrid;

Rev. Antoni Pujals Ginebreda
Vicar of the Delegation of Barcelona;

José Fernández Capo
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Barcelona;

Mateo García Lobato, José Antonio Senovilla García and Guillermo Tejera Plasencia
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Granada, Spain;

José María Pérez-Seoane Mazzucheli
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Seville, Spain;

José María Fernández Carazo, Jesús Miguel Hernández Galilea, Gonzalo Silió Pardo and Juan Marcelo Ruiz Fernández
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Valladolid, Spain;

Rev. Juan Vera Campos
Vicar of the Delegation of Santiago de Compostela, Spain;

Juan José Gascón Valverde and Antonio Presencia Crespo
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Valencia, Spain;

Rev. Jorge Balcells Canela
Vicar of the Delegation of Saragossa, Spain;

Rev. Javier Bibián Lamarca
Vicar Secretary of the Delegation of Saragossa, Spain;

Rev. José Manuel Martínez Jiménez
Vicar Secretary of the Delegation of Pamplona, Spain;

Antonio Hernáez García, Felipe Domingo Oslé, Miguel Ángel Iriarte Franco, José María Aguilar López and Juan Soler Moret
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Pamplona, Spain;

Rev. Ignacio Vaquero Marín
Spiritual Director of the Delegation of East Madrid;

Rev. Gerardo Núñez González
Spiritual Director of the Delegation of Pamplona, Spain;

Rev. Jesús Muñoz del Valle
Spiritual Director of the Delegation of Santiago de Compostela, Spain;

Rev. Diego Daza Bertrand
Spiritual Director of the Delegation of Seville, Spain;

Rev. Javier Ruza González
Spiritual Director of the Delegation of Valladolid, Spain;

November 14, 2002 Gregory G. Giebler
Member of the Council of the Delegation of Chicago;

Rev. John R. Meyer
Vicar of the Delegation of California;

Msgr. James A. Kelly
Vicar Secretary of the Delegation of California;

Rev. Jerome L. Jung
Spiritual Director and Member of the Council of the Delegation of California;

Rev. John E. Solarski
Vicar Secretary of the Delegation of Texas;

Rev. Michael J. Manz
Spiritual Director of the Delegation of Texas;

María Jesús Duplá Bernal and María del Carmen Sanahuja Saderra
Members of the Regional Advisory of Belgium;

November 15, 2002 Alida Cecilia Franceschi Franceschi, Gloria Elena Guevara Palma, Eugenia María Luzardo Leonardi and Verónica Ramos Rodríguez
Members of the Regional Advisory of Venezuela;

November 22, 2002 Silvia Mardegan
Member of the Council of the Delegation of Palermo, Italy;

November 25, 2002 Carla Beatriz Hernández García and Silvia Quesada Serrano
Members of the Council of the Delegation of El Salvador;

Diana Chávez Ordónez and Dora Edith Orellana Sierra
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Honduras;

Andrea Nagode
Member of the Council of the Delegation of Chicago;

Melany Lemmon
Member of the Council of the Delegation of California;

Teresa Carale
Member of the Council of the Delegation of Texas;

November 27, 2002 Virginia Luraschi and Olga Alén
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Paraguay;

Isabel Couto Torrado, Eva Acín Biota, María Belén Recio Aguilar, Ana María
Alfaro Ponce, María Elena Sánchez Gutiérrez and Ángeles García Pérez
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Valladolid, Spain;

Ana María Fábrega Vila and María Antonia Amador Fuentes
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Santiago, Spain;

Marta Gortázar Mendieta, María del Carmen Morte Gómez y María José Redondo Pérez
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Granada, Spain;

Rosa Manzano Moreno, María Teresa Vidau Argüelles, Tania Errasti Alcalá and Karmele Otxotorena Elícegui
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Pamplona, Spain;

Raquel Blasco Camacho, Margarita
Gonzalvo Cirac and María Concepción Ruiz Alonso
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Saragossa, Spain;

María Antonia Quesada Blasco
Member of the Council of the Delegation of Barcelona, Spain;

Inmaculada Jarillo Mossi, María Pilar Almañac Felipo and Miriam Cavestany Olivares
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Valencia, Spain;

Pilar Rodríguez de Torres Cárdenas, María Presentación Molina Fernández de los Ríos, María Paz González Bezunartea and Inmaculada Hernández Mateo
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Seville, Spain;

María Beatriz Soto Araneta, María Consuelo Zazurca González, Isabel Balmori Gamazo and Eugenia Barea Spínola
Members of the Council of the Delegation of East Madrid;

Margarita Palacios Díez and Pilar Herrero Algar
Members of the Council of the Delegation of West Madrid;

December 4, 2002 Miguel Herráiz Bayod
Member of the Council of the Delegation of Saragossa, Spain;

December 10, 2002 Sheila Marie Riestra Núñez
Member of the Council of the Delegation of the Dominican Republic;

December 12, 2002 Kathleen Donnelly, Mariana Coll and María Milagro Leoni
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Buenos Aires,

December 14, 2002 Carla Vasallo, Maria Eugenia Limone and Marta Risari
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Rome;

Bernardita Garcés Troncoso and María Cecilia Duprat
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Rio de Janeiro;

December 20, 2002 Tribunal of the Prelature:

Msgr. Ignacio Celaya Urrutia
Vicar Judicial;

Msgr. António Barbosa, Msgr. Roberto Lozano, Rev. Carlos María González Saracho and Rev. Francesco d'Agostino
Judges;

Msgr. Joaquín Alonso
Promoter of Justice;

Rev. Jean-Pierre Schouppe
Defender of the Bond;

Rev. Javier Martín García
Notary;

December 21, 2002 Dino Ernesto Palacio Tapia
Member of the Council of the
Delegation of Honduras;

Rev. Luis Ramos Pérez
Vicar Secretary of the Delegation of Guadalajara, Mexico;

Francisco Javier Soto Gutiérrez, Francisco Espinosa Manzo y Jesús
Humberto Ramírez Ulloa
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Guadalajara, Mexico;

Rev. Antonio Moya Gómez-Verea
Vicar of the Delegation of Monterrey, Mexico;

Rev. Ricardo Sánchez Guerrero
Vicar Secretary of the Delegation of Monterrey, Mexico;

Álvaro Fuentes Sancho, Ismael Ojeda Castillo and José Antonio Hernández Núñez
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Monterrey, Mexico;

Rev. Ramón Salas Cacho
Vicar of the Delegation of Mexico City;

Francisco García Ramírez, Óscar Vázquez Varela, Fernando Nájera Velasco and Arturo Eduardo Rueda Suárez
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Mexico

Rev. Francisco Emilio Prado Arias
Spiritual Director of the Delegation of Monterrey, Mexico;

December 27, 2002 Rev. Luis Fernando Cintra de Oliveira
Spiritual Director of the Delegation of Rio de Janeiro;

Maurício Dominguez Perez
Member of the Council of the Delegation of Rio de Janeiro ;

Mónica Villagra and María de las Mercedes Martínez
Members of the Council of the Delegation of Rosario, Argentina;