OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, NOV 16, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed F. Alapati Mataeliga, coordinator of the Pastoral Center of the archdiocese of Samoa-Apia, Independent State of Samoa as metropolitan archbishop of the same archdiocese (area 2,922, population 183,000, Catholics 30,336, priests 50, religious 117). The archbishop-elect was born in 1953 on Savaii Island, Samoa and was ordained a priest in 1977. He succeeds Cardinal Pio Taofinu'u, S.M., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Fr. Cosimo Semeraro, S.D.B., as secretary of the Pontifical Committee of Historical Sciences and Fr. Vittorino Grossi, O.S.A., as a member of the same Pontifical Committee.

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