The Press Office bulletin makes known the day's decisions on the governance of the Churches. The Pope accepted the resignation of Archbishop Samir Nassar and approved the election of Chorbishop Sharbel (Ghattas) Maroun as new archbishop of Damascus of the Maronites (Syria): born in Lebanon in 1962, ordained a priest in 1989, he was protosyncellus of the Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles, in the United States. Bishop Georgios Altouvas was also transferred from the archdiocese of Corfu, Zakynthos and Cephalonia to the see of Syros, Milos and Santorini (Greece), retaining the personal title of archbishop. Finally the Pontiff appointed Msgr. Gabriel Narciso Escobar Ayala, S.D.B., until now apostolic vicar of Chaco Paraguayo, as auxiliary bishop of Asunción (Paraguay): he was born in Asunción in 1971.