OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

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

- Appointed Bishop Joseph A. Galante of Beaumont, U.S.A., as coadjutor bishop of Dallas (area 19,475, population 2,815,732, Catholics 544,441, priests 206, permanent deacons 146, religious 249), U.S.A.

- Erected, at Saratov, Russia, the apostolic administration of Southern European Russia of the Latins, with territory taken from the apostolic administration of European Russia. He appointed Bishop Klemens Pickel, assistant to the apostolic administrator of European Russia, as apostolic administrator of the new ecclesial circumscription.

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