OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, APR 9, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Bishop Orlando Antonio Corrales Garcia, auxiliary of Medellin, Colombia, as bishop of Palmira (area 3,000, population 976,000, Catholics 920,000, priests 59, religious 227), Colombia.
- Appointed Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe as prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. He succeeds Cardinal Jozef Tomko, whose resignation as prefect of the same Congregation the Holy Father accepted, in conformity with canon 354 of the Code of Canon Law.

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