OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAR 17, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Marampudi Joji of Vijayawada, India, as metropolitan archbishop of Hyderabad (area 30,814, population 10,500,000, Catholics 83,074, priests 203, religious 858), India. He succeeds Archbishop Saminini Arulappa, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

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