OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JAN 18, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Fr Aurelio Jose Kuhn O.F.M., pastor in the archdiocese of Rosario, Argentina, as bishop of the territorial prelature of Dean Funes (area 28,700, population 54,064, Catholics 51,500, priests 11, religious 8), Argentina. The bishop-elect was born in Aldea Santa Maria, Argentina, in 1938 and ordained a priest in 1963. He succeeds Bishop Lucas Luis Donnelly O. de M., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Bishop Roger Lawrence Schwietz O.M.I,, of Duluth, U.S.A., as coadjutor archbishop of Anchorage (area 359,832 population 384,209, Catholics 28,723, priests 31, permanent deacons 12, religious 55), U.S.A. The archbishop-elect was born in Saint Paul, U.S.A., in 1940 and ordained a priest in 1967.

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