OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUL 5, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Erected the diocese of Janauba (area 28,975, population 381,585, Catholics 320,000, priests 13, religious 15), Brazil, with territory taken from the dioceses of Montes Claros and Januaria, making it suffragan of the metropolitan church of Diamantina.

- Appointed Fr. Jose Mauro Pereira Bastos, C.P., pastor of Nossa Senhora de Penha in Barbacena, Brazil as first bishop of the diocese of Janauba. The bishop-elect was born in 1955 in the diocese of Cachoeiro de Itapermirim, Brazil. In 1981 he made his solemn vows in the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ and was ordained in 1984.

- Appointed Bishop Fernando Jose Penteado, auxiliary of Sao Paulo, as bishop of Jacarezinho (area 13,426, population 416,674, Catholics 375,826, priests 74, religious 114), Brazil. He succeeds Bishop Conrado Walter, S.A.C., whose resignation to the pastoral care of the diocese of Jacarezinho was accepted by the Holy Father upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Fr. Tommaso Cascianelli, C.P., pastor of the parish of Santa Maria Goretti in the diocese of Itabuna and regional vicar of the Passionist Fathers in Bahia, as bishop of Irece (area 24,065, population 486,000, Catholics 448,000, priests 17, religious 32), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in 1948 in Capodimonte, Italy, made his religious profession in the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ in 1964 and was ordained a priest in 1973.

- Appointed Fr. Dario Campos, O.F.M., provincial minister of the province of Santa Croce in Belo Horizonte, Brazil as coadjutor bishop of Aracuai (area 24,640, population 483,000, Catholics 457,000, priests 30, religious 35), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Castelo, Brazil in 1948, made his perpetual vows in the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor in 1975 and was ordained a priest in 1977.

ECE; NER; RE; NEC;...;...;...;VIS;20000705;Word: 290;