OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUL 25, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Archbishop Eusebio Oscar Scheid, S.C.I., of Florianopolis, as metropolitan archbishop of Sao Sebastiao do Rio de Janeiro (area 1,721, population 5,598,953, Catholics 3,880,074, priests 563, permanent deacons 33, religious 1,644), Brazil. He succeeds Cardinal Eugenio de Araujo Sales, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, in accordance with the age limit.

- Appointed Msgr. Jose F. Advincula, of the clergy of the archdiocese of Capiz, pastor of San Tommaso di Villanueva a Dao, as bishop of San Carlos (area 3,041, population 904,257, Catholics 770,450, priests 44, religious 41), the Philippines. He succeeds Bishop Nicolas M. Mondejar, 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 Dumalag, the Philippines in 1952, and ordained to the priesthood in 1976.

- Appointed Bishop Dario de Jesus Monsalve Mejia, auxiliary of Medellin, as bishop of Malaga-Soata (area 7,466, population 183,698, Catholics 174,513, priests 52, religious 107), Colombia.

- Appointed Bishop Tulio Duque Gutierrez, S.D.S., of Apartado, as bishop of Pereira (area 6,126, population 1,053,930, Catholics 893,421, priests 182, permanent deacons 14, religious 342), Colombia.

- Appointed Fr. Fidel Leon Cadavid Marin, pastor of the Cathedral of Caldas, as bishop of Quibdo (area 12,758, population 244,000, Catholics 235,000, priests 41, religious 57), Colombia. The bishop-elect was born in Antioquia, Colombia, in 1951, and ordained to the priesthood in 1976.

- Appointed Msgr. Socrates B. Villegas, vicar general of the archdiocese of Manila (area 549, population 9,349,581, Catholics 8,463,112, priests 1,364, permanent deacons 14, religious 4,829), the Philippines, as auxiliary bishop of the same archdiocese. The bishop-elect was born in Manila in 1960, and ordained to the priesthood in 1985.

- Appointed Archbishop Francesco Gioia, emeritus of Camerino-San Severino Marche, Italy, secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples, as pontifical administrator of the Patriarchal Basilica of St. Paul's Outside-the-Walls and pontifical delegate for the Basilica of St. Anthony in Padua, as well as president of the "Peregrinatio ad Petri Sedem." He succeeds Archbishop Marcello Costalunga, whose resignation as pontifical administrator of the Patriarchal Basilica of St. Paul's Outside-the-Walls and pontifical delegate for the Basilica of St. Anthony in Padua was accepted by the Holy Father, in conformity with canon 354 of the Code of Canon Law.
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