OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JAN 14, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Matthew Vaniakizhakel C.V., rector of the DePaul Institute of Religion and Philosophy in Bangalore, India, as bishop of Satna of the Syro-Malabars (area 45,201, population 7,180,655, Catholics 2,609, priests 38, religious 162), India. The bishop-elect was born in Kaithappara, India, in 1945 and ordained a priest in 1972. He succeeds Bishop Abraham Mattam C.V., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same eparchy the Holy Father accepted, in accordance with canon 201, para. 1 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.

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