OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, OCT 12, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Fr. Lucas Kim Un-hoe of the archdiocese of Seoul, Korea, as auxiliary of the same archdiocese (area 3,768, population 12,497,135, Catholics 1,341,528, priests 807, religious 2,692). The bishop-elect was born in 1944 in Seoul and was ordained a priest in 1973.

- Archbishop Alfio Rapisarda, apostolic nuncio in Brazil, as apostolic nuncio in Portugal.

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