OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, DEC 5, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the eparchy of Van Nuys of the Ruthenians, U.S.A., presented by Bishop George Martin Kuzma in accordance with Canon 210, para. 2 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.

- Appointed Chorbishop Robert J. Shaheen, pastor of St. Raymond's Church, Saint Louis, U.S.A., as bishop of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles (Catholics 24,108, priests 39, permanent deacons 8, religious 15), U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in Danbury, U.S.A., in 1937 and ordained a priest in 1964. He succeeds Bishop John George Chedid, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same eparchy the Holy Father accepted, in accordance with Canon 210, para. 2 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.

- Appointed Bishop Alvaro Corrada S.J., auxiliary of Washington, U.S.A., as bishop of Tyler (area 59,472, population 1,211,878, Catholics 52,362, priests 77, permanent deacons 35, religious 87), U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, in 1942, ordained a priest in 1974 and consecrated a bishop in 1985.

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