OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAR 23, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Msgr. Jaime Soto of the clergy of Orange in California (area 2,025, population 2,674,091, Catholics 615,041, priests 272, permanent deacons 48, religious 483), U.S.A., episcopal vicar for hispanic peoples, as auxiliary bishop of the same diocese. The bishop-elect was born in Inglewood, U.S.A., in 1955 and ordained a priest in 1982.

- Cardinal Secretary of State Angelo Sodano as pontifical legate at celebrations for the millennium of St. Stephen of Hungary which are due to take place in Budapest on August 20.

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