The Press Office bulletin announces the day's episcopal appointment: the Pope has given his assent to the canonical election, by the Synod of Bishops of the Syro-Malabar Major Archiepiscopal Church, of Fr Thomas Animoottil — until now pro-protosyncellus of the Archeparchy of Kottayam (India) — as auxiliary bishop of the same Archeparchy of Kottayam, assigning him the titular see of Troina.