OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JAN 25, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Msgr. Mario Busquets Jorda, "fidei donum" priest of the diocese of Girona, Spain, and missionary of the archdiocese of Arequipa, as bishop-prelate of Chuquibamba (area 22,151, population 160,000, Catholics 154,000, priests 22, religious 53), Peru. The bishop-elect was born in Vilobi d'Onyar, Spain, in 1935, and ordained a priest in 1958.

- Erected the apostolic exarchate for Byzantine-rite Catholics in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, with territory taken from the diocese of Krizevci of the faithful of the Byzantine-rite. The Holy Father appointed Bishop Joakim Herbut of Skopje as first exarch of the newly-erected apostolic exarchate.

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