OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAR 25, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Msgr. Jorge Pedro Carrion Pavlich, of the clergy of Tarma, Peru, apostolic administrator of Puno (area 19,475, population 801,000, Catholics 696,000, priests 37, religious 50), Peru, as bishop of the latter diocese. The bishop-elect was born in Tarma in 1950 and ordained a priest in 1976.
- Msgr. Tommaso Valentinetti, of the clergy of Lanciano-Ortona, Italy, pastor of the parish of St. Gabriel the Archangel in Ortona and vicar general of the same archdiocese, as bishop of Termoli-Lariano (area 1,424, population 105,350, Catholics 104,300, priests 73, permanent deacons 5, religious 161), Italy. The bishop-elect was born at Ortona in 1952 and ordained a priest in 1977.

- Fr. Stanislav Hocevar S.D.B., inspector of the Salesians in Slovenia, as coadjutor archbishop of Beograd (area 50,000, population 5,505,000, Catholics 8,400, priests 19, religious 53), Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The archbishop-elect was born in Jelendol, Slovenia, in 1945 and ordained a priest in 1974.

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