Archbishop Giuseppe De Andrea retired and
Archbishop-designate Paul-Mounged El-Hachem was named Nuncio to
Kuwait,
Bahrain,
Yemen, and
Qatar as well as titular archbishop of
Darnis. Archbishop De Andrea had been serving as a nuncio for 4 years. Archbishop-designate El-Hachem had been serving as Bishop of
Baalbek-Deir El-Ahmar (Maronite) since 1995.