OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAY 27, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Domenico Umberto D'Ambrosio of Termoli-Larino as archbishop of Foggia-Rovino (area 1,326, population 197,656, Catholics 195,500, priests 175, religious 345), Italy. The archbishop-elect was born in Peschici, Italy in 1941, was ordained a priest in 1965 and a bishop in 1990. He succeeds Archbishop Giuseppe Casale, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese was accepted by the Holy Father, on having reached the age limit.

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