OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, OCT 7, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Andrzej Dziega, dean of the Faculty of Canon Law at Catholic University of Lublin, Poland as bishop of Sandomierz (area 7,850, population 728,145, Catholics 708,105, priests 541, religious 238), Poland. The bishop-elect was born in 1952 in Radzyn Podlaski, Poland and was ordained a priest in 1977. He succeeds Bishop Waclaw Swierzawski whose resignation the Holy Father accepted upon having reached the age limit.

On Saturday October 5, it was made public that the Holy Father assented to the election canonically undertaken by the Synod of Bishops of the Coptic Church, which met on September 29, 2002, of Rev. Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak, to the episcopal see of Minya of the Copts. The bishop-elect succeeds Bishop Antonios Naguib who resigned from the pastoral care of the same eparchy for health reasons in conformity with Canon 210, para. 2, of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.

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