OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAY 1, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Bishop Zygmunt Kaminski of Plock as archbishop of Szczecin-Kamien (area 12,754, population 1,081,374, Catholics 1,000,000, priests 583, religious 358), Poland. The archbishop-elect was born in 1933 in Wzgorze-Belzyce, Poland, was ordained a priest in 1956 and a bishop in 1975. He succeeds Archbishop Marian Przykucki, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese upon having reached the age limit was accepted by the Holy Father.

- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the apostolic vicariate of Reyes (area 60,000, population 118,000, Catholics 100,000, priests 15, religious 56), Bolivia, presented by Bishop Roger-Emile Aubry, C.SS.R., upon having reached the age limit. He is succeeded by Coadjutor Bishop Karl Burgler, C.SS.R.

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