OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JAN 8, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Bishop-prelate Romulo de la Cruz of the territorial prelature of Isabela, Philippines, as coadjutor bishop of San Jose de Antique (area 2,552, population 431,713, Catholics 304,678, priests 44, religious 109), Philippines.

- Accepted the resignation from the office of Patriarch of Antioch of the Syrians presented by His Beatitude Ignace Moussa I Daoud, prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, at the same time conceding him the title of Patriarch "ad personam."

- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Passau (Federal Republic of Germany), presented by Bishop Franz Xaver Eder, upon having reached the age limit.

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