OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, APR 19, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father erected the diocese of Blumenau (area 3,339, population 549,438, priests 34, religious 88), Brazil, with territory taken from the archdiocese of Florianopolis and from the dioceses of Joinville and Rio do Sul, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan Church of Florianopolis. He appointed Bishop Angelico Sandalo Bernardino, auxiliary of Sao Paulo, as bishop of the new diocese.

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