OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUN 24, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Martin Roos, director of the bishop's chancery of Timisoara (area 24,755, population 1,570,000, Catholics 122,479, priests 92, religious 106), Romania, as bishop of the same diocese. The bishop-elect was born in Satchinez, Romania, in 1942 and ordained a priest in 1971. He succeeds Bishop Sebastian Krauter, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

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