OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, DEC 11, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Fr. Jean-Christophe Lagleize, vice-director of the "Centro Nazionale di Insegnamento Religioso," as bishop of Valence (area 6,522, population 436,500, Catholics 381,000, priests 161, religious 270, permanent deacons 19), France. The bishop-elect was born in Soisy-sous-Montmorency, in 1954, and ordained to the priesthood in 1981. He succeeds Bishop Didier-Leon Marchand, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, in accordance with the age limit.

- Appointed Archbishop Edmond Farhat, apostolic nuncio in Slovenia and the Republic of Macedonia, as apostolic nuncio in Turkey and Turkmenistan.

- Appointed Archbishop Marian Oles, apostolic nuncio in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, as apostolic nuncio in Slovenia and the Republic of Macedonia.

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