OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, NOV 16, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father has appointed Fr. Abba Tesfay Medhin, secretary general of the Catholic Secretariat of Adigrat, Ethiopia, as bishop of the eparchy of Adigrat (area 80,000, population 4,516,625, Catholics 16,625, priests 85, Religious 101). The bishop-elect was born in Alitena, Ethiopia in 1953 and was ordained a priest in 1980. He succeeds Bishop Kidane-Mariam Teklehaimanot whose resignation the Holy Father accepted in conformity with Canon 210, para 1 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.

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