OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, APR 19, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Msgr. Joseph (Joy) Kalathiparambil, vicar general of the archdiocese of Verapoly, India as bishop of Calicut (area 12,505, population 8,770,634, Catholics 23,526, priests 96, religious 707), India. The bishop-elect was born in 1952 in Vaduthala, India and was ordained a priest in 1978. The Holy Father also accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese presented by Bishop Maxwell Valentine Noronha, upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Archbishop Jules Mikhael Al-Jamil, apostolic visitor of the Syrian faithful resident in Western Europe, as the procurator general of the Syrian Patriarchate in Rome.

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