OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUL 7, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Msgr. Gebhard Furst, director of the academy of the diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, as bishop of the same diocese (area 19,514, population 5,000,000, Catholics 2,043,672, priests 1,211, religious 3,444, permanent deacons 207), Federal Republic of Germany. The bishop-elect was born in 1948 in Bietigheim, Germany and was ordained a priest in 1977.

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