OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JAN 31, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Luciano Frigerio, head accountant of the administrative body of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, as bureau chief in the same congregation.

On Saturday, January 29, it was made public that he:

- Appointed Fr. Arturo de Jesus Correa Toro, of the clergy of the diocese of Jerico, Colombia, and pastor of the parish of the Immaculate Conception in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, as bishop of Ipiales (area 11,000, population 360,000, Catholics 342,000, priests 61, religious 136), Colombia. The bishop-elect was born in Ituango, Colombia, in 1941 and ordained a priest in 1967.

- Erected the apostolic vicariate of Puerto Gaitan (area 47,000, population 42,000, priests 9, religious 10), Colombia, with territory taken from the apostolic prefecture of Vichada. He appointed Fr. Jose Alberto Rozo Gutierrez S.M.M., pro-prefect of Vichada, as bishop of the new apostolic vicariate. The bishop-elect was born in Caqueza, Colombia, in 1937 and ordained a priest in 1962.

- Erected the apostolic vicariate of Puerto Carreno (area 57,000, population 33,000, priests 7, religious 7), Colombia, with territory taken from the apostolic prefecture of Vichada. He appointed Fr. Alvaro Efren Rincon Rojas C.SS.R., vicar delegate and chancellor of the apostolic vicariate of Sibundoy, Colombia, as bishop of the new apostolic vicariate. The bishop-elect was born in Calvario, Colombia, in 1933 and ordained a priest in 1962.

- Appointed Archbishop Giorgio Zur, president of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, as Holy See representative to the Russian Federation.

- Appointed Frs. Guillermo Rodrigo Teodoro Ortiz Mondragon, Jose Luis Fletes Santana and Felipe Tejada Garcia M.Sp.S., respectively rector of the major conciliar seminary and episcopal vicars of Mexico (area 1,479, population 21,816,000, Catholics 19,678,000, priests 1,690, permanent deacons 51, religious 6,906), Mexico, as auxiliary bishops of the same archdiocese. Bishop-elect Ortiz Mondragon was born in Toluca, Mexico, in 1947 and ordained a priest in 1976. Bishop-elect Fletes Santana was born at Rancho Viejo de los Fletes, Mexico, in 1947 and ordained a priest in 1975. Bishop-elect Tejada Garcia was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1935 and ordained a priest in 1966.

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