OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, NOV 24, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Hector Javier Pizarro Acevedo O.A.R., master of students of theology at the convent-seminary of Suba, Santafe de Bogota, Colombia, as first apostolic vicar of Trinidad (area 27,075, population 70,000, priests 10), Colombia, raising him to the dignity of bishop. The bishop-elect was born in Medellin, Colombia, in 1951 and ordained a priest in 1977.

It was made public today that the synod of bishops of the Greek-Melkite Catholic Church, meeting in Raboueh, Lebanon, on November 22, 2000, availing itself of the terms of Canon 126, para. 2 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, and after having consulted with the Holy Father, accepted the resignation from office presented by His Beatitude Maximos V, Patriarch of Antioch of the Greek-Melkite Catholics.

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