OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, OCT 24, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Archbishop Antonio Canizares Llovera of Granada, Spain as metropolitan archbishop of Toledo (area 19,333, population 558,721, Catholics 557,235, priests 462, religious 1214), Spain. He accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese presented by Archbishop Francisco Alvarez Martinez upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Fr. Jean-Claude Hertzog, vicar general of the archdiocese of Bordeaux, France as auxiliary of the same archdiocese (area 10,000, population 1,288,311, Catholics 966,000, priests 336, religious 87). The bishop-elect was born in Bordeaux in 1935 and was ordained a priest in 1962.

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