OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAY 31, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Fr. Robert Daniel Conlon, of the clergy of the archdiocese of Cincinnati, as bishop of Steubenville (area 15,309, population 522,253, Catholics 40,541, priests 120, permanent deacons 7, religious 109), U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in 1948 in Cincinnati and was ordained a priest in 1977. He succeeds Bishop Gilbert Ignatius Sheldon, whose resignation the Holy Father accepted upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Msgr. Roger J. Foys of the clergy of the diocese of Steubenville, as bishop of Covington (area 8,696, population 401,127, Catholics 88,896, priests 96, permanent deacons 22, religious 426), U.S.A. Bishop-elect Foys was born in Chicago in 1945 and was ordained a priest in 1973.

- Appointed Fr. Ignacio Ducasse Medina, rector of the Pontifical Major Seminary of the archdiocese of Santiago, Chile, as bishop of Valdivia (area 13,679, population 197,500, Catholics 180,000, priests 63, permanent deacons 1, religious 212), Chile. The bishop-elect was born in Santiago in 1956 and was ordained a priest in 1984.

Yesterday it was made public that the Holy Father appointed Fr. Lewis Zeigler, administrator of the diocese of Gbarnga, as bishop of Gbarnga (area 34,100, population 880,000, Catholics 9,600, priests 5, religious 17), Liberia. The bishop-elect was born in Harrisbourg, Libera in 1944 and was ordained a priest in 1974.

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