OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, NOV 21, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Fr. Pedro Barreto Jimeno, S.J., pastor and superior of the Community of Tacna, as apostolic vicar of Jaen en Peru (area 32,572, population 365,000, Catholics 346,000, priests 34, permanent deacons 1, religious 106), Peru. The bishop-elect was born in Lima in 1944, and ordained to the priesthood in 1971. He succeeds Bishop Jose Maria Izuzquiza Herranz, S.J., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same apostolic vicariate the Holy Father accepted, in accordance with the age limit.

- Gave his assent to the election, canonically carried out by the Synod of Bishops of the Antiochean Church of the Syrians, meeting in Charfet, Lebanon from September 11 to 15, 2001, of Chorbishop Antoine Chahda, apostolic exarch of the Syrians in Venezuela, to the archiepiscopal see of Aleppo of the Syrians. This see was made vacant by the transfer of Archbishop Raboula Antoine Beylouni to Beirut as patriarchal vicar. The archbishop-elect was born in Aleppo, Syria, in 1946, and ordained to the priesthood in 1973.
- Erected the diocese of Dundo (area 103,000, population 700,000, Catholics 70,000, priests 7, religious 9), Angola, with territory taken from the diocese of Saurimo, making it a suffragan of the Metropolitan Church of Luanda. He appointed Fr. Joaquim Ferreira Lopes, O.F.M.Cap., counsellor of the Angolan vice-province of the Capuchin Fathers, as the first bishop of Dundo.

- Appointed Fr. Martin S. Jumoad, administrator of the territorial prelature of Isabela (area 1,359, population 301,195, Catholics 80,430, priests 15, religious 44), the Philippines, as bishop of the same prelature. The bishop-elect was born in Kinasang-am, the Philippines in 1956, and ordained to the priesthood in 1983.

- Appointed Fr. Martin Werlen, O.S.B., prefect of the Maria Einsiedeln boarding-school as well as prefect of studies and professor of psychology at the theological school of the Monastery of Maria Einsiedeln, Switzerland, as ordinary abbot of the territorial abbacy of Maria Einsiedeln (area 1, population 85, Catholics 85, priests 45, permanent deacons 1, religious 83). The abbot-elect was born in Brig in 1962, and ordained to the priesthood in 1988.

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