OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, NOV 21, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Giuseppe Nazzaro, O.F.M., guardian of the Fraternity of St. Anthony in Damascus, Syria, as apostolic vicar of Alep of the Latins (Catholics 10,000, priests 40, religious 242), Syria, at the same time elevating him to the dignity of bishop. The bishop-elect was born in 1937 in San Potito, Italy and was ordained a priest in 1965. He succeeds Bishop Armando Bortolaso, S.D.B., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same apostolic vicariate the Holy Father accepted upon having reached the age limit.

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