OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, NOV 22, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Werner Thissen, auxiliary of Munster, Germany, as metropolitan archbishop of Hamburg (area 33,055, population 5,769,315, Catholics 504,091, priests 240, permanent deacons 39, religious 421), Germany. The archbishop-elect was born in Kleve, Germany in 1938 and was ordained a priest in 1966.

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