OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, SEP 28, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Bishop Oswald Gracias, auxiliary of the archdiocese of Bombay, India, as metropolitan archbishop of Agra (area 49,162, population, 27,003,487, Catholics 11,116, priests 47, religious 229), India. The archbishop-elect was born in Bombay, India, in 1944, ordained a priest in 1970 and consecrated a bishop in 1997.

- Metropolitan Archbishop Vincent Michael Concessao of Agra, India, as metropolitan archbishop of Delhi, India.

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