OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUL 11, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, archbishop of Genova, Italy, as metropolitan archbishop of Milan (area 4,243, population 5,089,148, Catholics 4,789,148, priests 3,188, permanent deacons 32, religious 8,582), Italy. He succeeds Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, S.J., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Fr. Valentino Di Cerbo, official in the Secretariat of State, as bureau chief of the Section for General Affairs.

- Appointed Archbishop Jean-Pierre Ricard of Bordeaux, France, as a member of the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei."

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