OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUL 12, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Fr. Genival Saraiva de Franca, vicar general of Campina Grande, as bishop of Palmares (area 3,797, population 476,000, Catholics 352,000, priests 26, religious 72, permanent deacons 1), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Alcantil, Brazil, in 1938 and was ordained a priest in 1965. He succeeds Bishop Acacio Rodrigues Alves, whose resignation to the pastoral governing of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted for having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Bishop Matias Patricio de Macedo of Cajazeiras, Brazil, as coadjutor of Campina Grande (area 20,451, population 886,000, Catholics 771,000, priests 47, religious 187), Brazil.

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