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(ANS – Rome 8 April 2002)
The names of the first regional councillors elected are made public. The chapter assembly reconfirmed Fr. Albert Van Hecke for North Europe, Fr. Joaquim D’Souza for South Asia, Fr. Helvécio Baruffi for South America and Fr. Filiberto Rodriguez Martin for West Europe. The new regionals for Italy-Middle East and for Interamerica are respectively Fr. Adriano Bregolin, provincial of Veneta-Est, and Fr. Esteban Antonio Ortiz Gonzales, provincial of Ecuador.
The Belgian Fr. Van Hecke is sixty-one years. He was regional councillor for the first six-years. He was also Rector of Hechtel, Sint-Denijs-Westrem and provincial of North Belgium.
Fr. Joaquim D’Souza, is fifty-seven years and was born in India. Before becoming regional, he was Rector of Pune, of the post-novitiate house at Nasik, of the provincial house of Matunga, Vice Provincial and then Provincial of Bombay.
Fr. Helvécio Baruffi, fifty-eight years, was bron in Brazil. He is reconfirmed as Regional. He was Rector of Ponta Grossa, Curitiba and Viamao, Master of the novices and provincial of Porto Alegre.
Also Fr. Filiberto Rodriguez Martin, a sixty year-old Spaniard, was the Rector of Orense, of the Don Bosco Center and of the provincial house of Leon. He was also provincial Economer and finally provincial of the same Salesian province.
Fr. Adriano Bregolin, is Italian and is fifty two years. He was the Rector of Trent and of Verona-Don Bosco, the vice provincial and provincial of West Veneta.
Finally, Fr. Esteban Antonio Ortiz Gonzales was born in Ecuador in 1946. He was director of Machala, of Guayaquil-San Domenico Savio, provincial delegate for youth pastoral and provincial of Ecuador.
In the afternoon, the members will vote for the regional of Africa and the new region of Australia-Asia East.
(ANS – Rome, 8 Aprile 2002)
With the choice of the last two regional councillors, the work of electing new regional councillors has been concluded. Regionals for Africa and East Asia- Australia were left to be elected. The assembly chose for Africa, Valentin De Pablo and for East Asia- Australia, Fr. Vaclav Klement.
Fr Valentin De Pablo was born in 1946 in Spain. He was the delegate for Youth Pastoral of Spain and is presently the delegate of the provincial of Portugal for Mozambique. From ’96 to ’99 he also held the post of President of the Conference of Religious of Mozambique.
Fr. Vaclav Klement is the youngest of the General councillors. He was born in 1958 in the Czech Republic. He was the director of Seul-Daerim Dong, and presently the superior of the province of Korea.
Having concluded the election of the general councillors, the Chapter will now take up once again, its studies and work in the six commissions.
(ANS – Rome, 8 April 2002)
With the election of the last two regionals, the Salesian congregation now has a new general council. For the next six-years, 2002-2008, Fr. Pascual Chávez will count on the collaboration of these 14 councillors. Belgian Fr. Luc Van Looy is reconfirmed as the Vicar of the Rector Major who also has the task of animating the Salesian Family. The five councillors of the departments are: Fr. Francesco Cereda (Italian) for the sector of Formation, Fr. Antonio Domenech (Spaniard) reconfirmed for Youth Pastoral, Fr. Tarcisio Scaramussa (Brazilian) for Social Communications, Fr. Francis Alencherry (Indian) for the Missions, and Fr. Giovanni Mazzali (Italian) reconfirmed as Economer General. The regional councillors are: Fr. Valentin De Pablo (Spaniard) for Africa-Madagascar, Fr. Helvécio Baruffi (Brazilian) for South America-Cono, Fr. Joaquim D’Souza (Indian) for the new region of South Asia, Fr. Vaclav Klement (Czech) for the new region of Australia-East Asia, Fr. Albert Van Hecke (Belgian) confirmed for North Europe, Fr. Filiberto Rodriguez Martin re-confirmed for West Europe, Fr. Esteban Antonio Ortiz Gonzales (Ecuadorian) for Interamerica, Fr. Adriano Bregolin (Italian) for Italy-Middle East.
Fifty percent of the new councillors are reconfirmed. The youngest is Fr. Klement who is 43 years, while the oldest is Fr. Luc Van Looy and Fr. Albert Van Hecke, both born in 1941. With respect to nationalities, the Mexican Fr. Chávez will have among his councillors 3 Spaniards 3 Italians, 2 Brazilians, 2 Belgians, 2 Indians, one Ecuadorian and one Czech.
The Rector Major is now ready to choose his secretary general.
Click here for a photograph of the New General Council
(ANS - Rome, 13 April 2002)
The week just concluded was marked by the taking up of discussion in the assembly of the various commissions. From Monday morning to Friday afternoon, the work of all six commissions was passed through the “sieve” of observations and it was enriched by further interventions made by the chapter members. With this second stage, the programme of work towards deepening of the documents of the Chapter was concluded. This morning the commissions discussed the theme of the Salesian coadjutor.
Meanwhile, thee members of the commissions began the work of editing and giving the documents a certain homogeneous unity with respect to the textual style and language used by the six commissions.
From Monday, the third and last stage, consisting of the iuxta modum vote of the assembly, will be held. This will eventually carry forward the definite modifications on the text for the final approval and voting to be ready by the weekend.
In the meantime, the central commission is preparing some messages of the Chapter addressed to the congregation, to the Salesian Family and to young people. These will be presented for approval together with the final document.
In this way the Chapter on the theme of the community that began on 24th February arrives at its conclusion, having given to the Salesian congregation the IX successor of Don Bosco in the person of Fr. Pascual Chávez.
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