OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAY 10, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio in Haiti, as apostolic nuncio in Uganda.

On Saturday, May 8, it was made public that the Holy Father appointed Fr. Thomas Kabore, of the clergy of Ouagadougou, as bishop of Kaya (area 18,000, population 702,774, Catholics 60,000, priests 27, religious 32), Burkina Faso. The bishop-elect was born in Ouagadougou in 1943, was ordained a priest in 1970 and since 1993 has been parish priest of "Notre Dame du Rosaire."

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