OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUL 21, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Accepted the resignation of Bishop Raymond Dumais, from the pastoral care of Gaspe, Canada, in conformity with canon 401, para. 2, of the Code of Canon Law.
- Appointed Msgr. Salvador Pineiro Garcia-Calderon, of the clergy of the archdiocese of Lima, Peru, regional episcopal vicar and pastor of Santa Rosa di Lima in Lince, as military ordinary for Peru. The bishop-elect was born in Lima in 1949, and ordained to the priesthood in 1973.

- Appointed Bishop Joseph Maria Punt, apostolic administrator "sede vacante" of Haarlem (area 2,912 population 2,655,818, Catholics 531,322, priests 380, permanent deacons 17, religious 1,485), the Netherlands, as bishop of the same diocese.

- Appointed Bishop Johannes Gerardus Maria van Burgsteden, S.S.S., auxiliary of the apostolic administrator of Haarlem, the Netherlands, as auxiliary of the same diocese.

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