OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUN 16, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Theodore-Adrien Sarr of Kaolack, Senegal, as metropolitan archbishop of Dakar (area 5,395, population 1,959,342, Catholics 226,404, priests 126, religious 531), Senegal. The archbishop-elect was born in Fadiouth, Senegal, in 1936, ordained a priest in 1964 and consecrated bishop in 1974. He succeeds Cardinal Hyacinthe Thiandoum, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

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