OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, OCT 31, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Bishop Julio Cesar Vidal Ortiz of Montelibano, as bishop of Monteria (area 14,550, population 1,350,000, Catholics 1,200,000, priests 74, religious 219), Colombia.

- Fr. Bonifacio Antonio Reimann Panic, O.F.M., pastor and curator of the Convent of Saint Ann in Sucre, as apostolic vicar of Nuflo de Chavez, Bolivia. The bishop-elect was born in Kadlub Turowski, Poland, in 1952, and ordained to the priesthood in 1979.

- Fr. John Chrisostom Kwon Hyok-ju, of the clergy of the diocese of Andong, Korea, professor of Dogmatic Theology in the Major Interdiocesan Seminary of Taegu, as bishop of Andong (area 10,788, population 935,675, Catholics 43,437, priests 49, religious 157). The bishop-elect was born in Uisong-kun, in 1957, and ordained to the priesthood in 1983.

- Archbishop Jean-Paul Gobel, apostolic nuncio in Senegal, Mali, Guinea Bissau and the islands of Cape Verde, apostolic delegate in Mauritania, as apostolic nuncio in Nicaragua.

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