OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JAN 26, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Msgr. John Hine, vicar general of the archdiocese of Southwark, as auxiliary of the same archdiocese (area 3,000, population 4,048,900, Catholics 380,979, priests 449, permanent deacons 64, religious 1040), England. The bishop-elect was born in Tunbridge Wells in 1938, and ordained a priest in 1962. He succeeds Bishop Charles Joseph Henderson, whose resignation as the auxiliary of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

- Confirmed the election of Bishop Lubomyr Husar as major archbishop of Lviv of the Ukrainians (area 10,800, population 1,826,700, Catholics 1,607,000, priests 555, permanent deacons 2, religious 866), Ukraine, effected in Lviv on January 25, 2001 by the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Church. The archbishop-elect was born in Lviv in 1933, ordained a priest in 1958 and a bishop in 1977.

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