OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUL 3, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father

- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Maceio, Brazil, presented by Archbishop Edvaldo Goncalves Amaral, S.D.B., upon having reached the age limit. He is succeeded by Archbishop Jose Carlos Melo, coadjutor of the same archdiocese.

- Appointed Msgr. Valery Vienneau, vicar general of the archdiocese of Moncton, Canada, as bishop of Bathurst (area 18,770, population 120,563, Catholics 110,563, priests 60, permanent deacons 1, religious 232), Canada. The bishop-elect was born in 1947 in Cap-Pele, Canada and was ordained a priest in 1982.

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