OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, OCT 18, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Msgr. Tommaso Ghirelli, episcopal vicar of the diocese of Bologna, Italy, as bishop of Imola (area 820, population 140,000, Catholics 135,000, priests 133, permanent deacons 9, religious 177), Italy. The bishop-elect was born in Forli, Italy in 1944 and was ordained a priest in 1969. The Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese presented by Bishop Guiseppe Fabiani, upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Msgr. Cataldo Naro, lecturer of Church History in the Faculty of Theology at St. John the Baptist in Sicily, as archbishop of Monreale (area 1,509, population 190,000, Catholics 185,000, priests 150, religious 343), Italy. The archbishop-elect was born in San Cataldo, Italy in 1951 and was ordained a priest in 1974.

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