OTHER PONTIFIC AL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAR 24, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Erected the ecclesiastical province of Arusha, Tanzania, elevating the same episcopal see to the rank of metropolitan church, making the dioceses of Mbulu, Moshi and Same suffragen to it. He appointed Bishop Josaphat Louis Lebulu of this same diocese as first metropolitan archbishop of Arusha.

- Appointed Fr. Jacob Koda as bishop of Same (area 10,000, population 540,000, Catholics 42,000, priests 40, religious 55), Tanzania. The bishop-elect was born in Kilomemi, Tanzania, in 1957, was ordained a priest in 1987, and since 1995 has been professor of Pastoral Theology at St. Charles Lwanga Major Seminary in Segerea, Dar es Salaam.

- Appointed Fr. Bruno Pedron, S.D.B., as coadjutor bishop of Jardim (area 69.972, population 200,000, Catholics 192,000, priests 9, religious 39), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Torreglia, Italy, in 1944, made his religious profession in 1963, was ordained a priest in 1974, and was recently transferred to Lins where he was director of the magazine "Presenca Salesiana."

- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the territorial abbey of Claraval, Brazil, presented by Dom Domenico Carmelo Recchia, O.Cist., on having reached the age limit. He appointed Bishop Orani Joao Tempesta, O.Cist., of Rio Preto, as apostolic administrator "sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis" of this same territorial abbey (area 844, population 12,500, Catholics 10,625, priests 7, religious 19).

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