OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUN 22, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Bishop Denis James Hart, auxiliary of Melbourne (area 27,194, population 3,365,173, Catholics 995,797, priests 647, permanent deacons 1, religious 2,055), Australia, as metropolitan archbishop of the same archdiocese. The archbishop-elect was born in Melbourne in 1941, he was ordained a priest in 1967 and consecrated a bishop in 1997.

- Fr. Misael Vacca Ramirez of the clergy of Garagoa, Colombia, rector of the Juan de Castellanos university institute in Tunja, as the first bishop of Yopal (area 17,725, population 232,908, Catholics 192,450, priests 33, permanent deacons 2, religious 53), Colombia. The bishop-elect was born in Somondoco, Colombia, in 1955 and ordained a priest in 1983.

- Msgr. Vincent M. Rizzotto, vicar general of Galveston-Houston (area 23,257, population 4,442,230, Catholics 908,190, priests 437, permanent deacons 292, religious 779), U.S.A., as auxiliary of the same diocese. The bishop-elect was born in Houston in 1931 and ordained a priest in 1956.

- Archbishop Luigi Ventura, apostolic nuncio in Chile, as apostolic nuncio in Canada.

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