OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, FEB 15, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Bishop Tarsizio Gervazio Ziyaye of Lilongwe as metropolitan archbishop of Blantyre (area 9,161, population 3,900,000, Catholics 744,965, priests 87, religious 233), Malawi. He succeeds Archbishop James Chiona, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same metropolitan archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Bishop Felix Eugenio Mkhori of Chikwawa as bishop of Lilongwe (area 24,025, population 4,000,000 Catholics 446,488, priests 93, religious 272), Malawi.

- Appointed Bishop Francesco Lambiasi of Anagni-Alatri as general ecclesiastical assistant of Italian Catholic Action.

- Raised Fr. Tomasz Peta, apostolic administrator of Astana, Kazakhstan, to the dignity of bishop. The bishop-elect was born in Inowroclaw, Poland, in 1951, and ordained to the priesthood in 1976.

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