OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, DEC 21, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, president of the Committee for the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, as his special envoy to Jerusalem for the January 1 World Day of Peace in Jerusalem and the Holy Land. The cardinal will bring the Holy Father's Message for the World Day of Peace to Israeli and Palestinian authorities.

- Fr. Stanislaw Dowlaszewicz O.F.M. Conv., episcopal vicar and pastor in Santa Cruz de la Sierra (area 50,000, population 1,600,000, Catholics 1,300,000, priests 150, permanent deacons 5, religious 677), Bolivia, as auxiliary bishop of the same archdiocese. The bishop-elect was born in Podworance, Belarus, in 1957 and ordained a priest in 1984.

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