OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, OCT 19, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Msgr. George J. Lucas of the clergy of the archdiocese of St. Louis and rector of the Kenrick-Glennon major seminary, as bishop of Springfield in Illinois (area 39,195, population 1,129,814, Catholics 171,363, priests 188, permanent deacons 1, religious 696), U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in St. Louis, U.S.A. in 1949 and ordained a priest in 1975. He succeeds Bishop Daniel L. Ryan, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, in accordance with canon 401, para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.

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