OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, DEC 14, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Benoit Riviere, epsicopal vicar of Marseille (area 650, population 1,000,000, Catholics 669,000, priests 341, permanent deacons 15, religious 990), France, as auxiliary of the same archdiocese. The bishop-elect was born in Brive, France, in 1954 and ordained a priest in 1983.

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