OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAR 29, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Bishop Alfonso Delgado Evers of Posadas, Argentina, as metropolitan archbishop of San Juan de Cuyo (area 96,650, population 562,720, Catholics 547,000, priests 79, permanent deacons 10, religious 87), Argentina. The archbishop-elect was born in Rosario, Argentina, in 1942, ordained a priest in 1970 and consecrated bishop in 1986. He succeeds Archbishop Italo Severino Di Stefano, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Fr. Antonio Wagner da Silva S.C.I., pastor of the parish of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Joinville, Brazil, and provincial councillor, as coadjutor bishop of Guarapuava (area 27,830, population 574,735, Catholics 413,499, priests 75, religious 155), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Formiga, Brazil, in 1944 and ordained a priest in 1971.

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