OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JAN 5, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Cardinal Rosalio Jose Castillo Lara S.D.B., former president of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, as his special envoy to the second Regional Eucharistic Congress of the Antilles, which is scheduled to be held at Castries, St. Lucia, from May 18 to 20.

- Fr. Carillo Gritti I.M.C., pastor of the parish of "Santa Luzia", Manaus, Brazil, as bishop of the territorial prelature of Itacoatiara (area 83,012, population 118,695, Catholics 109,343, priests 12, religious 28), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Martinengo, Italy, in 1942 and ordained a priest in 1967.

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