OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUL 6, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Heinrich Timmerevers, of the clergy of the diocese of Munster (area 15,286, population 4,212,631, Catholics 2,085,526, priests 1,251, permanent deacons 209, religious 3,808), Germany, pastor of Visbek, as auxiliary bishop of Munster. He succeeds Auxiliary Bishop Max-Georg von Twickel, 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 Garrel/Nikolausdorf, Germany, in 1952, and ordained to the priesthood in 1980.

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