OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUN 10, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Bishop Juan Garcia Rodriguez, auxiliary of Camaguey, Cuba, as metropolitan archbishop of the same archdiocese (area 18,671, population 858,351, Catholics 535,000, priests 25, permanent deacons 5, religious 52). The archbishop-elect was born in 1948 in Camaguey and was ordained a priest in 1972. He succeeds Archbishop Adolfo Rodriguez Herrera, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Bishop Jean-Pierre Tafunga, S.D.B., of Kilwa-Kasenga, Democratic Republic of Congo, as bishop of Uvira (area 36,000, population 374, 852, Catholics 221,471, priests 35, religious 31), Democratic Republic of Congo. He succeeds Bishop Jerome Gapangwa Nteziryayo, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, in accordance with Canon 401, para. 2, of the Code of Canon Law.
It was made public on Saturday June 8 that the Holy Father:

- Appointed Fr. Alfred Leonhard Maluma, professor of moral theology at the Major Seminary of Peramiho, Tanzania, as bishop of Njombe (area 20,860, population 543,000, Catholics 230,000, priests 90, religious 419), Tanzania. The bishop-elect was born in 1955 in Lukani, Tanzania and was ordained a priest in 1985. He succeeds Bishop Raymond Mwanyika, S.M.M., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted in accordance with Canon 401, para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.

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