OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, NOV 15, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Fr. Calogero La Piana, S.D.B., inspector of the Salesians in Sicily, as bishop of Mazara del Vallo (area 1,734, population 234,592, Catholics 223,250, priests 100, religious 275), Italy. The bishop-elect was born in Riesi, Italy in 1952 and ordained a priest in 1981. He succeeds Bishop Emanuele Catarinicchia whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Bishop Jean Gagnon, auxiliary of Quebec, Canada as bishop of Gaspe (area 20,637, population 88,483, Catholics 87,042, priests 58, permanent deacons 3, religious 175), Canada.

- Appointed Bishop Marc Ouellet, P.S.S., secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, as archbishop of Quebec (area 35,180, population 1,072,950, Catholics 1,027,948, priests 896, permanent deacons 82, religious 3,533), Canada. The archbishop-elect was born in 1944 in Lamotte, Canada and was ordained a priest in 1972. He succeeds Archbishop Maurice Couture, R.S.V., whose resignation the Holy Father accepted from the same archdiocese upon having reached the age limit.

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