OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUL 17, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Fr. Pedro Brito Guimaraes, rector of the major regional seminary of Teresina, Brazil, as bishop of Sao Raimundo Nonato (area 39,316, population 175,169, Catholics 170,000, priests 19, religious 22), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Buriti, Brazil in 1954 and was ordained a priest in 1986. He succeeds Bishop Candido Lorenzo Gonzalez, O. M., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted upon having reached the age limit.

- Accepted the resignation presented by Bishop Reginald Michael Cawcutt, auxiliary of the archdiocese of Cape Town, South Africa, in accordance with Canons 401, para. 2, and 411 of the Code of Canon Law.

- Appointed Bishop Joao Braz de Aviz of Ponta Grossa, Brazil, as metropolitan archbishop of Maringa (area 6,294, population 603,387, Catholics 452,541, priests 59, permanent deacons 3, religious 180), Brazil.

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