OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, NOV 30, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Fr. Dorylas Moreau, pastor of St. Patrick's in Riviere-du-Loup in the diocese of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere, as bishop of Rouyn-Noranda (area 23,000, population 58,946, Catholics 56,913, priests 31, religious 96), Canada. The bishop-elect was born in Kamouraska, Canada in 1947, and ordained to the priesthood in 1972. He succeeds Bishop Jean-Guy Hamelin, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, in accordance with the age limit.

- Appointed Fr. Jose S. Vasquez, of the clergy of the diocese of San Angelo, Texas, U.S.A., pastor of Saint Joseph Parish in the same diocese, as auxiliary bishop of Galveston-Houston (area 23,257, population 4,442,230, Catholics 908,190, priests 437, permanent deacons 292, religious 779), U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in Stamford, in 1957, and ordained to the priesthood in 1984.

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