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Pope Francis has named a successor to the slain Cardinal Angelo Becciu.
His post as Prefect of the Congregation for the Canonization and Beatification is taken over by the Italian Bishop Marcello Semeraro.
In addition, the head of the Catholic Church confirmed the Munich Archbishop Cardinal Reinhard Marx in the Cardinal Council, as announced by the Vatican.
The Catholic Papal States announced the withdrawal of the Italian Becciu from his offices on September 24th.
He is accused of being responsible for dubious money flows in the Vatican.
Becciu denied wrongdoing.
His successor Semeraro was previously Bishop of Albano, southeast of Rome, and Secretary of the Council of Cardinals.
This body is supposed to promote the reform of the Curia, i.e. the Vatican bureaucracy.
With the new appointment, the Pope increases the Council of Cardinals.
The committee advises him on the reform of the Curia, as reported by the Catholic media center.
Francis has been trying for a long time to rearrange the less transparent finances.
Many expenses are to be controlled centrally in the future.
In addition, the Pope appointed the newly elected Nobel Prize winner Reinhard Genzel to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
The director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching near Munich will become a full member there, said the press office of the Papal States.
The 68-year-old was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on October 6th.
The Pope's body holds international meetings.
It is intended to promote scientific progress.
The academy brings together around 80 researchers from various disciplines, including other experts from Germany.
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