OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, DEC 11, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Fr. Bishop Gilio Felicio, auxiliary of Sao Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, as bishop of Bage (area 35,554, population 380,183, Catholics 304,146, priests 34, permanent deacons 1, religious 120), Brazil.

- Appointed Fr. Dominique Marie Jean Denis You, fidei donum in the archdiocese of Sao Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, as auxiliary bishop of the same archdiocese (area 5,277, population 3,327,498, Catholics 2,661,998, priests 243, permanent deacons 44, religious 1,670). The bishop-elect was born in Gassin, France in 1955 and was ordained a priest in 1981.

- Appointed Fr. Jan Babjak, S.J., professor of Eastern Spirituality in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Trnava, Slovakia, as bishop of the eparchy of Presov (Catholics 175,000, priests 263, permanent deacons 1, religious 167). The bishop-elect was born in Hazine nad Cirichou, Slovakia in 1953 and was ordained a priest in 1978. He succeeds Bishop Jan Hirka whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same eparchy the Holy Father accepted upon having reached the age limit.

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