OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAR 30, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father erected the diocese of Bafata (area 24,635, population 490,000, Catholics 31,000, priests 16, religious 31), Guinea Bissau, with territory taken from the diocese of Bissau, and immediately subject to the Holy See. He appointed Fr. Carlos Pedro Zilli, of the Pontifical Institute of Foreign Missions (P.I.M.E.), currently spiritual director of the P.I.M.E. Philosophical Seminary and regional vice-superior of the same Institute for southern Brazil, as first bishop of the newly erected diocese. The bishop-elect was born in S. Cruz do Rio Pardo, Brazil, in 1954, and ordained to the priesthood in 1985.

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