OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, OCT 24, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Bishop Luiz Antonio Guedes, auxiliary of Campinas, as bishop of Bauru (area 5,879, population 433,000, Catholics 384,000, priests 59, religious 118), Brazil.

- Bishop Augusto Alves da Rocha of Picos, as bishop of Oeiras-Floriano (area 58,697, population 340,000, Catholics 315,000, priests 19, religious 49), Brazil.

- Msgr. Julito B. Cortes, of the clergy of the diocese of Dumaguete, vicar general of the same diocese, as auxiliary of the archdiocese of Cebu (area 5,088, population 3,222,841, Catholics 2,787,956, priests 501, religious 1,344), the Philippines. The bishop-elect was born in Paranaque, the Philippines, in 1956, and ordained to the priesthood in 1980.

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