OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUN 28, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Fr. Lorenzo Loppa, episcopal vicar of pastoral care and parish priest of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Segni, Italy, as bishop of Anagni-Alatri (area 737, population 84,000, Catholics 83,500, priests 72, religious 299), Italy. The bishop-elect was born in Segni in 1947 and was ordained a priest in 1971. He succeeds Bishop Francesco Lambiasi, assistant ecclesiastical general of Italian Catholic Action, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted.

- Appointed Fr. Fernando Areas Rifan, vicar general of the personal Apostolic Administration of St. John Maria Vianney in Campos, Brazil, as coadjutor of the same apostolic administration. The bishop-elect was born in Sao Fidelis, Brazil in 1950 and was ordained a priest in 1974.

- Appointed Bishop Ludwig Schick, auxiliary of Fulda, Germany, as metropolitan archbishop of Bamberg (area 10,290, population 1,876,102, Catholics 778,874, priests 530, permanent deacons 3, religious 1155), Germany.

- Appointed Fr. Stefan Secka, vice rector of the Seminary of Spis, Solvakia, as auxiliary of the same diocese (area 7,802, population 572,008, Catholics 426,818, priests 326, religious 362).

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