The Pope accepts the resignation of Archimandrite Jan Sergiusz Gajek as Apostolic Administrator for Byzantine-rite Catholics in Belarus and appoints as his successor Rev. Fr. Liavoncij Tumouski, a Studite monk born in 1973 in Polotsk, ordained priest in 2003 and holder of a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Oriental Institute. He also appoints Bishop Pedro Luis Fuentes Valencia, C.P., previously titular Bishop of Temuniana and Auxiliary of the Archdiocese of La Paz, as Military Ordinary Bishop for Bolivia; born in 1968 in La Paz, he is a Passionist religious ordained priest in 2004.