OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUN 9, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Arthe Guimond, diocesan administrator since 1998 of the archdiocese of Grouard-McLenna (area 224,596; population 114,760, Catholics 44,397, priests 22; religious 22), Canada, as metropolitan archbishop of the same archdiocese. The archbishop-elect was born in 1931 in Rimouski, Canada, and was ordained a priest in 1957.

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