OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

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

- Appointed Bishop Damiao Antonio Franklin, auxiliary of the archdiocese of Luanda (area 34,000, population 4,420,050, Catholics 2,520,160, priests 102, religious 782), Angola, as metropolitan archbishop of the same archdiocese. He succeeds Cardinal Alexandre do Nascimento, whose resignation from the pastoral care of Luanda the Holy Father accepted in accordance with the age limit.

- Appointed Msgr. Henryk Jozef Nowacki, nunciature counsellor, as apostolic nuncio in Slovakia, elevating him to the dignity of archbishop. The archbishop-elect was born in Gunzenhausen, Germany, in 1946, and ordained to the priesthood in 1970.

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