OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, NOV 11, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Bishop Ubaldo Ramon Santana Sequera F.M.I., of Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela, as archbishop of Maracaibo (area 10,761, population 2,083,785, Catholics 1,747,000, priests 142, permanent deacons 4, religious 388), Venezuela. The archbishop-elect was born in Cagua, Venezuela, in 1941, ordained a priest in 1968 and consecrated bishop in 1990.

- Fr. John Ribat M.S.C., master of novices at Suva, Fiji, as auxiliary bishop of Bereina (area 19,146, population 80,000, Catholics 62,656, priests 17, permanent deacons 1, religious 51), Papua New Guinea. The bishop-elect was born at Volavolo, Papua New Guinea, in 1957 and ordained a priest in 1985.

- Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto, apostolic nuncio in Iraq and Jordan, as apostolic nuncio in Ireland.

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