OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, APR 8, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Fr. Michael A. Blume S.V.D., official of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples, as under-secretary of the same council.

- Msgr. Miklos Beer, rector of the major seminary of Esztergom, as auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest (area 1,543, population 2,094,000, Catholics 1,258,000, priests 461, permanent deacons 13, religious 994), Hungary. The bishop-elect was born in Budapest in 1943 and ordained a priest in 1966.

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