OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, APR 27, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Fr. Douglas Young S.V.D., dean of studies at the Divine Word University in Madang and vice-provincial of the Verbites in Papua New Guinea, as auxiliary of the archdiocese of Mount Hagen (area 8,288, population 328,850, Catholics 128,355, priests 35, religious 92), Papua New Guinea. The bishop-elect was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1950 and ordained a priest in 1977.

- Cardinal Bernard F. Law, archbishop of Boston, U.S.A., as his special envoy to the National Eucharistic Congress of Peru which is to be held in Lima, Peru, from August 30 to September 3, 2000.

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