OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUN 23, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Fr. Hugo Maria van Steekelenburg O.F.M., guardian of the Sao Francisco das Chagas Convent and secretary of the Franciscan province of Santa Cruz, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, as bishop of Almenara (area 15,638, population 252,000, Catholics 232,000 priests 12, religious 37), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Wateringen, Holland, in 1937 and ordained a priest in 1964.

- Archbishop Lorenzo Baldisseri, apostolic nuncio in India, as apostolic nuncio in Nepal.

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