OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAY 21, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Erected the eparchy of St. Peter the Apostle of San Diego of the Chaldeans, U.S.A. with territory taken from the eparchy of St. Thomas the Apostle of Detroit of the Chaldeans, U.S.A. (The eparchy of St. Thomas the Apostle of Detroit of the Chaldeans covered all of the United States for the Chaldeans.) The Pope appointed Fr. Sarhad Jammo as first bishop of the new eparchy. The bishop-elect was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1941 and was ordained a priest in 1964.

- Appointed Fr. Yves-Marie Pean, C.S.C., rector of the philosophy section of the Major Seminary in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as coadjutor of Les Gonaives, Haiti. The bishop-elect was born in Pilate, Haiti in 1954 and was ordained a priest in 1983.

- Elevated the apostolic prefecture of Kontagora, Nigeria to the status of apostolic vicariate, with the same denomination and territorial configuration. He appointed Fr. Timothy Joseph Carroll, S.M.A., apostolic prefect of Kontagora, as first apostolic vicar of the same vicariate (area 55,000, population 1,250,000, Catholics 20,000, priests 19, religious 22). The bishop-elect was born in Kerry, Ireland in 1940 and was ordained a priest in 1965.

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