VATICAN CITY, JUL 24, 2000 - The Holy Father named Fr. Luigi Antonio Secco, S.D.B., superior and master of novices at the novitiate of San Antonio de los Altos in Caracas, Venezuela, as coadjutor bishop of Willemstad (area 993, population 313,442, Catholics 255,140, priests 40, religious 86, permanent deacons 1), Netherlands Antilles. The bishop-elect was born in Piazzola sul Brenta, Italy in 1947 and was ordained a priest in 1975.
On Saturday, July 22, it was made public that the Pope appointed Fr. Joaquin Mariano Sucunza, pastor of St. Rose of Lima parish and interim episcopal vicar of the central zone of Buenos Aires, as auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Buenos Aires (area 202, population 3,826,000, Catholics 3,506,000, priests 915, religious 2,852, permanent deacons 3), Argentina. The bishop-elect was born in Pamplona, Spain in 1946 and was ordained a priest in 1971.
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