OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JAN 23, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Jose Song Sui-Wan S.D.B., director of the "Sao Luiz" Salesian Oratory in the diocese of Limeira, Brazil, as bishop of Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira (area 286,866, population 55,000, Catholics 45,000, priests 20, religious 64), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Shangay, China, in 1941 and ordained a priest in 1971. He succeeds Bishop Walter Ivan de Azevedo, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

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