OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAR 21, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Archbishop Ennio Antonelli, secretary general of the Italian Episcopal Conference, as archbishop of Florence (area 2,205, population 874,172, Catholics 826,484, priests 665, permanent deacons 34, religious 2,163), Italy. He succeeds Cardinal Silvano Piovanelli, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, in conformity with the age limit.

- Appointed Bishop Edward Joseph Gilbert, C.SS.R., of Roseau, Dominica, as metropolitan archbishop of Port of Spain (area 5,123, population 1,250,000, Catholics 395,000, priests 90, religious 253), Trinidad and Tobago.

- Appointed Msgr. Jose Antonio Gentico, vicar general of Moron, as auxiliary of the archdiocese of Buenos Aires (area 202, population 3,826,000, Catholics 3,506,000, priests 915, permanent deacons 3, religious 2,852), Argentina. The bishop-elect was born in Arnedo, Spain, in 1932, and ordained to the priesthood in 1968.

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