OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, SEP 3, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Jean-Louis Papin, rector of the interdiocesan seminary of Nantes, as bishop of Nancy (area 5,275, population 732,000, Catholics 669,000, priests 385, permanent deacons 11, religious 613), France. The bishop-elect was born in Chemille, France, in 1947 and ordained a priest in 1974.

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