OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, DEC 16, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Philippe Gueneley, episcopal vicar of Saint-Claude, France, as bishop of Langres (area 6,250, population 200,000, Catholics 180,000, priests 81, permanent deacons 11, religious 139), France. The bishop-elect was born in Dole, France, in 1938 and ordained a priest in 1964. He succeeds Bishop Leon Taverdet whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

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