OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, APR 19, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Bishop German Pavon Puente of Tulcan, Ecuador, as bishop of Ambato (area 3,844, population 434,465, Catholics 394,516, priests 81, permanent deacons 2, religious 249), Ecuador.

- Fr. Elio Alevi Perez Tapia, S.D.B., vicar of the Salesian Inspectorate "Santa Rosa da Lima," as bishop prelate of Juli (area 17,527, population 385,411, Catholics 300,000, priests 12, religious 32), Peru. The bishop-elect was born in Huambos, Peru, in 1946, and ordained to the priesthood in 1975.

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