OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUN 4, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia, presented by Archbishop Michel-Gaspard Coppenrath on having reached the age limit. He is succeeded by Coadjutor Archbishop Hubert Coppenrath.

- Appointed Fr. John McAreavey of the clergy of the diocese of Dromore, as Bishop of Dromore (area 1,000, population 190,000, Catholics 65,200, priests 89, religious 173), Ireland. The bishop-elect was born in Banbridge, Ireland in 1949, he was ordained a priest in 1973 and since 1988 has been professor of Canon Law at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth. He succeeds Bishop Francis Gerard Brooks, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Bishop Marcelo Arturo Gonzalez Amador, auxiliary of Santa Clara (area 12,754, population 1,145,302, Catholics 500,000, priests 22, religious 39), Cuba as bishop of the same diocese.

- Appointed Fr. Mile Bogovic, professor of Church history at the Technological Institute of Rijeka, Croatia, as auxiliary of the archdiocese of Rijeka-Senj (area 10,975, population 390,000, Catholics 290,000 priests 153, religious 275). The bishop-elect was born in Cerovac, Croatia in 1939 and ordained a priest in 1964.

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