OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUL 15, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Accepted the resignation to the pastoral governing of the diocese of Morombe, Madagascar, presented by Bishop Alwin Albert Hafner, M.S.F. in conformity with Canon 401, para 2, of the Code of Canon Law.
- Appointed Fr. Victor Agbanou, diocesan administrator and professor of Sacred Scripture at the Major Seminary of Ouidah, Benin, as bishop of Lokossa (area 4,635, population 979,210, Catholics 83,452, priests 56, religious 88), Benin. The bishop-elect was born in 1945 in the diocese of Lokossa and was ordained a priest in 1974.

- Appointed Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, archbishop of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, as his special envoy to the concluding celebrations of the Fourth National Eucharistic Congress of Uruguay, which will take place on October 15 in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay.

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