OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, NOV 13, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Elevated to the rank of diocese the territorial prelature of Coxim (area 45,998, population 124,999, Catholics 100,000, priests 17, religious 26), Brazil, with the same name and territorial configuration, making it suffragan of the metropolitan Church of Campo Grande.

- Appointed Bishop Antonino Migliore, bishop-prelate of Coxim, Brazil as first bishop of the same diocese.

- Appointed Fr. Guerrino Riccardo Brusati, fidei donum of the diocese of Paulo Afonso, Brazil, as bishop of Caetite (area 41,740, population 708,000, Catholics 637,000, priests 31, religious 50), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Bellanzago Novarese, Italy in 1945 and was ordained a priest in 1973. He succeeds Bishop Antonio Alberto Guimaraes Rezende, C.S.S., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted upon having reached the age limit.

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