OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, NOV 27, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Alois Kothgasser of Innsbruck, Austria as metropolitan archbishop of Salzburg (area 9,715, population 677,000, Catholics 516,767, priests 344, permanent deacons 32, religious 686), Austria. The archbishop-elect was born in Sankt Stefan im Rosental, Austria in 1937 and was ordained a priest in 1964.

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