OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, NOV 17, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Msgr. Franco Agostinelli, vicar general of the diocese of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro, as bishop of Grosseto (area 1,239, population 111,140, Catholics 110,152, priests 82, permanent deacons 2, religious 89), Italy. The bishop-elect was born in Arezzo, in 1944, and ordained to the priesthood in 1968. He succeeds Bishop Giacomo Babini, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, in conformity with canon 401, para. 2, of the Code of Canon Law.

- Appointed Msgr. Vittorio Lanzani, of the clergy of Pavia, secretary of the Fabric of St. Peter's, as delegate of the same Fabric, at the same time elevating him to the dignity of bishop.

- Appointed Archbishop Luigi Dossena, apostolic nuncio, and Archbishop Giovanni Coppa, apostolic nuncio, as consultors of the Secretariat of State, in the Section for General Affairs.

- Appointed Archbishop Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, apostolic nuncio, and Archbishop Dominik Hrusovsky, apostolic nuncio, as consultors of the same Secretariat of State, in the Section for Relations with States.

- Promoted Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo to the Order of Bishops, assigning him the suburbicarian see of Frascati, made vacant by the death of Cardinal Paolo Bertoli.

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