OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

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

- Appointed Bishop Rodolfo Quezada Toruno of Zacapa, Guatemala, prelate of Santo Cristo de Esquipulas, as metropolitan archbishop of Guatemala (area 2,591, population 3,600,000, Catholics 3,000,000, priests 546, permanent deacons 1, religious 1,518), Guatemala. The archbishop-elect was born in Guatemala in 1932, ordained a priest in 1956 and consecrated a bishop in 1972. He succeeds Archbishop Prospero Penados del Barrio whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Fr. Michel Santier, episcopal vicar of Coutances, France, as bishop of Lucon (area 7,015, population 539,000, Catholics 505,000, priests 468, permanent deacons 26, religious 1,481), France. The bishop-elect was born in Granville-Hopital, France, in 1947 and ordained a priest in 1973.

- Appointed Msgr. Timothy Michael Dolan of the clergy of St. Louis (area 15,451, population 2,064,548, Catholics 555,000, priests 819, permanent deacons 213, religious 2,680), U.S.A., as auxiliary of the same archdiocese. The bishop-elect was born in St. Louis in 1950, ordained a priest in 1976 and up until now has been rector of the North American College in Rome.

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