OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAR 26, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Roberto Octavio Gonzalez, O.F.M., of Corpus Christi as metropolitan archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico (area 1,051, population 1,233,743, Catholics 1,002,080, priests 300, religious 552), Puerto Rico. The archbishop-elect was born in Elizabeth, United States of America, in 1950, was ordained a priest in 1977 and a bishop in 1988. He succeeds Cardinal Luis Aponte Martinez, whose resignation from the pastoral care of this archdiocese was accepted by the Holy Father on having reached the age limit.

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