OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

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

- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Chulucanas, Peru, presented by Bishop John C. McNabb O.S.A. in accordance with Canon 401, para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law. He is succeeded by Coadjutor Bishop Daniel Thomas Turley Murphy O.S.A.

- Appointed Bishop Pietro Brollo of Belluno-Feltre, Italy, as archbishop of Udine (area 4,726, population 488,000, Catholics 478,500, priests 507, permanent deacons 14, religious 908), Italy. The archbishop-elect was born in Tolmezzo, Italy, in 1933, ordained a priest in 1957 and consecrated a bishop in 1986. He succeeds Archbishop Alfredo Battisti, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

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