OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAY 26, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father:
- Appointed Fr. Gaspar Quintana Jorquera, C.M.F., provincial in Chile of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, as bishop of Copiapo (area 80,000, population 230,873, Catholics 188,623, priests 28, permanent deacons 25, religious 96), Chile. He succeeds Bishop Fernando Ariztia Ruiz, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, in accordance with the age limit. The bishop-elect was born in Santiago de Chile in 1936, and ordained to the priesthood in 1964.

- Appointed Fr. Ludovic Minde, O.S.S., assistant to the supreme moderator of the priests of "Opus Spiritus Sancti," a Society of Apostolic Life, as bishop of Kahama (area 19,946, population 952,000, Catholics 92,572, priests 23, women religious 24), Tanzania. He succeeds Bishop Matthew Shija, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, in accordance with the age limit. The bishop-elect was born in Kibosho, Tanzania, in 1952, and ordained to the priesthood in 1986.

- Appointed Auxiliary Bishop Daniel Adwok of Khartoum, Sudan, as a member of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue.

- Accepted the resignation of Bishop Antanas Vaicius from the pastoral care of Telsiai, Lithuania, in accordance with the age limit.

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