OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, DEC 17, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Fr. Michael Apochi as bishop of Otukpo (area 9,600, population 1,520,000, Catholics 454,000, priests 48, religious 30), Nigeria. The bishop-elect was born in 1960 in Ichama District, Nigeria and was ordained a priest in 1986.

- Appointed Msgr. Gabriele Giordano Caccia, nunciature councillor of the Secretariat of State, as councillor for General Affairs.

- Appointed Fr. Francesco Borgia Tran Van Kha, study assistant of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of Sacrament, as bureau chief of the same congregation.


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