OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, APR 17, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Joseph Suren Gomes S.D.B., as bishop of Krishnagar (area 8,640, population 7,358,890, Catholics 59,345, priests 47, permanent deacons 1, religious 346), India. The bishop-elect was born in 1944 in Ashnabad, India and was ordained a priest in 1974.

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