OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAR 11, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Erected the metropolitan archdiocese of Pesaro, Italy, and the ecclesiastical province of the same name, made up of that metropolitan see with the following suffragans: the archdiocese of Urbino-Urbania-Sant'Angelo in Vado and the diocese of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola. He appointed Bishop Angelo Bagnasco, of Pesaro as metropolitan archbishop of the same ecclesiastical circumscription.

- Appointed Msgr. Francesco Marinelli, professor of sacramental theology at the Pontifical Lateran University, as archbishop of Urbino-Urbania-Sant'Angelo (area 781, population 53,500, Catholics 52,100, priests 83, religious 137), Italy. The archbishop-elect was born in Appignano del Tronto, Italy, in 1935 and ordained a priest in 1961.

- Made the following changes to the ecclesiastical region of the Marche, Italy: The ecclesiastical province of Ancona-Osimo has as suffragans: the dioceses of Fabriano-Matelica, Jesi, Senigallia and the prelature of Loreto. The ecclesiastical province of Fermo has as suffragans: the archdiocese of Camerino-San Severino Marche and the dioceses of Ascoli-Piceno, Macerata-Tolentino-Recanati-Cingoli-Treia, San Benedetto del Tronto-Ripatransone-Montalto.

- Appointed Bishop Angel N. Lagdameo of Dumaguete, the Philippines, as metropolitan archbishop of Jaro (area 5,304, population 1,897,590, Catholics 1,771,880, priests 198, religious 479), the Philippines. The archbishop-elect was born in Lucban, Philippines, in 1940, ordained a priest in 1964 and consecrated a bishop in 1980.

- Appointed Msgr. Francesco Bruno as president of the Court of Appeal of Vatican City State.

- Appointed Msgr. Mario Piacenza, bureau chief of the Congregation for the Clergy, as under-secretary of the same dicastery.

- Appointed Fr. Fernando Jose Monteiro Guimaraes C.SS.R., secretariat attache of the Congregation for the Clergy, as bureau chief of the same dicastery.

- Appointed Sr. Maria Berchmans Lowenberg R.J.M., as a member of the Pontifical Commission for International Eucharistic Congresses.

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