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Pope approves German lawyer to head embattled bank
Posted: Feb 15, 2013 4:28 AM by ASSOCIATED PRESS
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI has signed off on one of the last major appointments of his papacy, approving a German lawyer to head the Vatican's embattled bank.
Ernst Von Freyberg has solid financial and Catholic credentials as a member of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, an ancient chivalrous order drawn from European nobility.
The appointment ends a nine-month search after the Institute of Religious Works ousted its previous president, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, for incompetence. The ouster came just as the Vatican was submitting its finances to a review by a Council of Europe committee in a bid to join the list of financially transparent countries.
The Vatican said Von Freyberg had been appointed by the bank's commission of cardinals and that the pope had "expressed his full consent."
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