OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, OCT 24, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Christophe Dufour, episcopal vicar of Lille, France, as bishop of Limoges, (area 11,085, population 512,000, Catholics 434,000, priests 156, permanent deacons 8, religious 333), France. The bishop-elect was born in Armentieres, France, in 1947 and ordained a priest in 1975. He succeeds Bishop Leon Soulier, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

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