OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, APR 28, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Fr. Austen Robin Crapp O.F.M., as bishop of Aitape (area 18,200, population 83,000, Catholics 57,000, priests 23, religious 73), Papua New Guinea. The bishop-elect was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1934, made his first religious vows in 1953, was ordained a priest in 1959, and since 1997 has been diocesan administrator of the diocese of Aitape.

- Fr. Henk Kronenberg S.M., as bishop of Bougainville (area 9,300, population 185,000, Catholics 155,000, priests 20, religious 53), Papua New Guinea. The bishop-elect was born in Enschede, the Netherlands, in 1934, made his first religious vows in 1958, was ordained a priest in 1961, and since 1995 has been general secretary of the of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands.

NER;...;...;CRAPP; KRONENBERG ;VIS;19990428;Word: 120;