OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAY 24, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Fr. Julianus Kemo Sunarko S.J., director of the Institute of Research and Social Development and president of Caritas Indonesia, as bishop of Purwokerto (area 15,336, population 13,062,800, Catholics 70,668, priests 34, religious 185), Indonesia. The bishop-elect was born in Klepu, Indonesia, in 1941 and ordained a priest in 1975.

- Archbishop Blasco Francisco Collaco, apostolic nuncio in Bulgaria, as apostolic nuncio in South Africa and Namibia and apostolic delegate in Botswana.

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