OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAR 28, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Jose Francisco Rezende Dias, vicar general of the archdiocese of Pouso Alegre (area 12,620, population 708,341, Catholics 583,318, priests 90, religious 261), Brazil, as auxiliary of the same archdiocese. The bishop-elect was born in Brasopolis, Brazil, in 1956, and ordained to the priesthood in 1979.

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