OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, NOV 7, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Fr. Malcolm Patrick McMahon O.P., prior of Blackfriars at Oxford, England, as bishop of Nottingham (area 13,074, population 3,560,000, Catholics 142,600, priests 189, permanent deacons 14, religious 301), England. The bishop-elect was born in London, England, in 1949 and ordained a priest in 1982. He succeeds Bishop James Joseph McGuinness, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
- Appointed Fr. Mark Jabale O.S.B., abbot of Belmont, as coadjutor bishop of Menevia (area 9,716, population 611,679, Catholics 28,764, priests 57, religious 171), Wales. The bishop-elect was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1933 and ordained a priest in 1958.

- Appointed Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, dean of the College of Cardinals, as his special envoy to the National Eucharistic Congress of Haiti, due to take place at Port-au-Prince from December 1 to 3.

- Appointed Fr. Jerome E. Listecki of the clergy of Chicago, U.S.A., pastor of the parish of St. Ignatius, as auxiliary bishop of Chicago (area 3,653, population 5,682,000, Catholics 2,358,000, priests 1,725, permanent deacons 612, religious 3,469). The bishop-elect was born in Chicago in 1949 and ordained a priest in 1975.

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