Wednesday, October 11, 2000

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, OCT 11, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Msgr. Andrea Bruno Mazzocato, rector of the episcopal seminary of Treviso, Italy, as bishop of Adria-Rovigo (area 1,193, population 201,745, Catholics 199,983, priests 183, religious 356), Italy. The bishop-elect was born in S. Trovaso, Italy, in 1948. He succeeds Bishop Martino Gomiero, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

The Synod of Bishops of the Syrian Catholic Church, meeting at Charfet, Lebanon, on September 16, 2000 decided to transfer Archbishop Denys Antoine Beylouni from the archieparchy of Aleppo of the Syrians to the patriarchal curia.

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