OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAR 29, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Msgr. Kevin John Patrick McDonald, rector of the Seminary of St. Mary's College, Oscott, in Birmingham, England, as bishop of Northampton (area 5,532, population 1,800,000, Catholics 170,737, priests 126, permanent deacons 17, religious 239), England. The bishop-elect was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England, in 1947, and ordained to the priesthood in 1974. He succeeds Bishop Patrick Leo McCartie, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, in conformity with the age limit.

- Appointed Msgr. Bernd Joachim Uhl, of the clergy of the archdiocese of Freiburg im Breisgau (area 16,229, population 4,540,000, Catholics 2,160,650, priests 1,432, permanent deacons 158, religious 3,193), Germany, director of "Caritas" and moderator of the Public Relations Office of the archdiocesan curia, as auxiliary of the same archdiocese. The bishop-elect was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1946, and ordained to the priesthood in 1974.

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