OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 18 FEB, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Luis Gabriel Cuara Mendez of Tuxpan, Mexico, as bishop of Veracruz (area 9,000, population 2,428,000, Catholics 2,240,000, priests 97, religious 249), Mexico. He succeeds Bishop Jose Guadalupe Padilla Lozano, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

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