OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, SEP 16, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Msgr. Ovidio Poletti, vicar general of the diocese of Vittorio Veneto, Italy, as bishop of Concordia-Pordenone (area 2,675 population 339,322, Catholics 337,204, priests 344, permanent deacons 15, religious 380), Italy. The bishop-elect was born in Caneva, Italy, in 1935 and ordained a priest in 1958. He succeeds Bishop Sennen Corra, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

- Accepted the resignation from the offices of prefect of the Congregation for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America presented by Cardinal Lucas Moreira Neves O.P. for reasons of age and health.

- Appointed Archbishop Giovanni Battista Re, substitute for General Affairs, as prefect of the Congregation for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.

- Appointed Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, apostolic nuncio in Mexico, as substitute for General Affairs.

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