OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUL 14, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Edward Gabriel Risi, O.M.I., master of Our Lady of Hope Novitiate of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Johannesburg, South Africa as bishop of Keimoes-Upington (area 272,265, population 314,110, Catholics 65,879, priests 16, religious 44, permanent deacons 3), South Africa. The bishop-elect was born in 1949 in Johannesburg and was ordained a priest in 1974. He succeeds Bishop John Baptist Minder, O.S.F.S., whose resignation to the pastoral governing of Keimoes-Upington was accepted by the Holy Father for having reached the age limit.

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