OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUN 7, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Bishop Salvatore Gristina of Acireale, Italy, as metropolitan archbishop of Catania (area 1,332, population 731,056, Catholics 716,000, priests 418, permanent deacons 20, religious 757), Italy. He succeeds Archbishop Luigi Bommarito, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Fr. Aloysius Murwito, O.F.M., provincial vicar of the Franciscan Fathers, Indonesia as bishop of Agats (area 37,000, population 85,000, Catholics 49,000, priests 17, religious 12), Indonesia. The bishop-elect was born in Sleman-Yogya, Indonesia in 1950 and was ordained a priest in 1982.

- Appointed Msgr. Donald Kettler of Sioux Falls, U.S.A., as bishop of Fairbanks (area 1,061,099, population 155,224, Catholics 17,132, priests 29, permanent deacons 40, religious 20), U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in Minneapolis, U.S.A. in 1944 and was ordained a priest in 1970.

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