New circumscriptions
On April 19, 2007, the Prelate of Opus Dei, Bishop Javier Echevarría, established that—regarding the geographical division of the Prelature's circumscriptions—the territory of the Autonomous Community of La Rioja, Spain would now be dependent on the Delegation of Saragossa in place of Pamplona, by the following decree:
Nos Dr. D. XAVERIUS ECHEVARRIA
Dei et Apostolicæ Sedis gratia
Prælatus Sanctæ Crucis et Operis Dei
DECRETUM
Quo aptius provideatur curæ laboris apostolici Prælaturæ in territorio La Rioja in Hispanica Regione, perspecto n. 153 Codicis iuris particularis Operis Dei, auditis Consilio Generali atque Assessoratu Centrali necnon Vicario Regionali Hispaniæ et Vicariis Delegationum quarum interest, hoc præsenti decreto
STATUIMUS
ut territorium Communitatis Autonomæ La Rioja separetur a Delegatione Pampelonensi et pertineat posthac ad circumscriptionem Delegationis sedem habentis Cæsaraugustæ.
Datum Romæ, ex Aedibus Curiæ Prælatitiæ, die 19 mensis aprilis, anno 2007.
+ Xaverius Echevarría
Franciscus Vives
Curiæ Prælatitiæ Cancellarius
Reg. Gen. R. Lib. VI pag. 26
On May 25, 2007, the Prelate of Opus Dei, Bishop Javier Echevarría, erected the
Delegation of Russia, by the following decree:
Nos Dr. D. XAVERIUS ECHEVARRIA
Dei et Apostolicæ Sedis gratia
Prælatus
DECRETUM
Perspecto n. 152, §2 Codicis iuris particularis Operis Dei.
Auditis Consilio Generali et Assessoratu Centrali, Prælaturæ Delegationem Russiæ a me dependentem erigo atque erectam declaro.
Datum Romæ, ex Aedibus Curiæ Prælatitiæ, die 25, mense maio, anno 2007.
+ Xaverius Echevarría
Franciscus Vives
Curiæ Prælatitiæ Cancellarius
Reg. Gen. R. Lib. VI pag. 26
Romana, n. 44, January-June 2007, p. 98-99.