OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JAN 3, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil, presented by Bishop Luis Herbst C.S.Sp. upon having reached the age limit. He is succeeded by Bishop Mose Joao Pontelo C.S.Sp., coadjutor of the same diocese.

- Appointed Fr. Redovino Rizzardo C.S., director of the Scalabrinian spiritual center of Guapore, Brazil, as coadjutor bishop of Dourados (area 68,300, population 660,000, Catholics 534,600, priests 85, religious 155), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Bento Goncalves, Brazil, in 1939 and ordained a priest in 1967.

- Appointed Frs. Pedro Luiz Stringhini of the clergy of the archdiocese of Sao Paulo, Brazil, professor of Holy Scripture and vice-rector of the "Nossa Senhora da Assuncao" faculty of theology in Sao Paulo; and Manuel Parrado Carral of the clergy of Santo Andre, Brazil, rector of the theological seminary of that diocese, as auxiliaries of Sao Paulo (area 1,645, population 8,892,960, Catholics 6,669,720, priests 903, permanent deacons 1, religious 3,673). Bishop-elect Stringhini was born in Laranjal Paulista, Brazil, in 1953 and ordained a priest in 1980. Bishop-elect Parrado Carral was born in San Roman, Spain, in 1946 and ordained a priest in 1972.

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