OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAY 24, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Fr. Thomas Matthew Burns, S.M., vicar general of the Military Ordinariate for Great Britain, as military ordinary for the same country. The bishop-elect was born in 1944 in Belfast, Ireland and was ordained a priest in 1971. The Holy Father accepted the resignation from the office of military ordinary for Great Britain, presented by Bishop Francis Joseph Walmsley, upon having reached the age limit.

- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Milwaukee, U.S.A., presented by Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland, O.S.B., upon having reached the age limit.

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