OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

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

- Appointed Fr. Thomas Aquinas, vicar general of Vellore, India, as bishop of Coimbatore (area 28,490, population 9,422,273, Catholics 225,773, priests 120, religious 638), India. The bishop-elect was born in 1953 in Pillaithope, India and was ordained a priest in 1980. He succeeds Bishop Ambrose Mathalaimuthu whose resignation from the pastoral care he accepted upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Fr. Gabriel Malzaire, pastor and professor at the Regional Seminary in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago as bishop of Roseau (area 750, population 75,393, Catholics 59,707, priests 29, religious 58), Dominica. The bishop-elect was born in 1957 in Mons Repos, Saint Lucia and was ordained a priest in 1985.

- Appointed Fr. Vincent Darius, O.P., spiritual director of the regional seminary in Port of Spain, Trinidad, as bishop of Saint George's in Grenada (area 344, population 98,000, Catholics 55,919, priests 25, religious 57), Grenada. The bishop-elect was born in 1955 in Crochi, Grenada and was ordained a priest in 1987. He succeeds Bishop Sydney Anicetus Charles whose resignation the Holy Father received upon having reached the age limit.

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