OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JAN 18, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Msgr. Dennis Marion Schnurr, of the clergy of Sioux City, secretary general of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops of the U.S.A., as bishop of Duluth (area 57,875, population 417,125, Catholics 81,560, priests 92, permanent deacons 23, religious 190), U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in Hospers, U.S.A., in 1948, and ordained a priest in 1974.

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