OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, FEB 13, 2003 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Bishop Jose Maria Arancedo of Mar del Plata, Argentina, as metropolitan archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz (area 30,701, population 880,000, Catholics 795,000, priests 139, permanent deacons 18, religious 251 ), Argentina. The archbishop-elect was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1940 and was ordained a priest in 1967.

- Fr. Paul Tan Chee Ing, S.J., regional assistant for Eastern Asia for the Society of Jesus in Rome, as bishop of Melaka-Johor (area 20,364, population 3.198,071, Catholics 36,271, priests 38, religious 71), Malaysia. The bishop-elect was born in 1940 in Muar, Malaysia and was ordained a priest in 1971.

- Msgr. Damiano Marzotto Caotorta, study assistant of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, as bureau chief of the same dicastery.

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