OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, NOV 6, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Canon Manuel Jose Macario do Nascimento Clemente, rector of the major patriarchal seminary, as auxiliary of the patriarchate of Lisbon (area 3,735, population 2,205,077, Catholics 1,894,315, priests 639, permanent deacons 20, religious 1,929), Portugal. The bishop elect was born in Torres Vedras, Portugal, in 1948 and ordained a priest in 1979.

- Fr. Peter Ri Ki-hun, chancellor of the archdiocese of Seoul, Korea, as military ordinary for Korea.
- Msgr. Marcello Zago, secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, as his special envoy to the celebrations for the centenary of the erection of the first three apostolic prefectures in the Amazonian regions of Peru, due to take place in Lima, Peru, on January 30, 2000.

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