HAVANA – The chairman of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, on Thursday in this capital attended the installation of the assembly of Cuba’s Catholic bishops.

The prelate, who arrived Wednesday night on a four-day working visit to the communist island, will meet with several authorities in the communications sector, church sources announced.

On Friday, he will meet with the bishops’ communications media committee and will give a speech in a Havana church on the theme of the church, media and online culture.

Celli, 68, was named chairman of the communications council by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007.

His arrival in Cuba coincided with the presentation of the new papal nuncio on the island, Archbishop Giovanni Becciu, who earlier represented the Vatican in Angola and Sao Tome and Principe.

The Cuban government announced last week the appointment of Eduardo Delgado Bermudez, until then the general director of the foreign ministry, as the new envoy to the Holy See.

In February 2008, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone visited Havana and met with President Raul Castro a few days after Cuba’s parliament formally ratified him as successor to older brother Fidel, sidelined by illness in July 2006. EFE