OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JAN 30, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Erected the ecclesiastical province of Catanzaro-Squillace, elevating the archdiocese of the same name to metropolitan church, until now "immediate subiecta Sanctae Sedi," assigning as suffragans the archdiocese of Crotone-Santa Severina and the diocese of Lamezia Terma, until now suffragans of Reggio Calabria-Bova. He appointed Archbishop Antonio Cantisani as metropolitan archbishop of Cantazaro-Squillace.

- Erected the ecclesiastical province of Cosenza-Bisignano, elevating the archdiocese of the same name to metropolitan see, until now "immediate subiecta Sanctae Sedi," assigning as suffragans the archdiocese of Rossano-Cariate and the diocese of Cassano all'Jonio, until now suffragans of Reggio Calabria-Bova and the diocese of S. Marco Argentano-Scalea, until now "immediate subiecta Sanctae Sedi." He appointed Archbishop Giuseppe Agostino as metropolitan archbishop of Cosenza-Bisignano.

- Appointed Msgr. Robert Wattebled, vicar general of Arras, as bishop of Nimes (area 5,880, population 600,000, Catholics 360,000, priests 195, religious 250, permanent deacons 6), France. The bishop-elect was born in Calais in 1946 and ordained a priest in 1974.

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