VATICAN CITY, MAY 22, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Henk Te Maarssen S.V.D., diocesan administrator of Kundiawa (area 8,876, population 186,109, Catholics 97,080, priests 25, religious 33), Papua New Guinea, as bishop of the same diocese. The bishop-elect was born at Groenlo, Netherlands, in 1933 and ordained a priest in 1960.
On Saturday May 20, it was made public that he appointed:
- Fr. Carlos Humberto Malfa, pastor in the diocese of Mar de Plata, Argentina, as bishop of Chascomus (area 27,000, population 275,826, Catholics 246,200, priests 27, permanent deacons 2, religious 40), Argentina. The bishop-elect was born in Mar de Plata in 1948 and ordained a priest in 1978
- Francesco D'Agostino, professor of the philosophy of law at the faculty of jurisprudence at Rome's Tor Vergata University, as a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.
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