Monday, December 20, 1999

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS


VATICAN CITY, DEC 18, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Guayaquil, Ecuador, presented by Auxiliary Bishop Jose Gabriel Diaz Cueva, in accordance with canons 411 and 401, para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.

- Appointed Msgr. Alberto Bottari de Castello of the diocese of Treviso, Italy, presently rector of the John XXIII minor seminary in the diocese of Ebolowa-Kribi, Cameroon, as apostolic nuncio in Gambia, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, at the same time elevating him to the dignity of archbishop. The archbishop-elect was born in Montebelluna, Italy, in 1942 and ordained a priest in 1966.

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