OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, FEB 20, 2003 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed the following as auxiliary bishops of the diocese of Mainz (area 7,692, population 2,770,000, Catholics 814,205, priests 553, religious 577), Germany:

- Msgr. Werner Guballa, vicar general of the same diocese. The bishop-elect was born in Mainz-Marienborn, Germany in 1944 and was ordained a priest in 1970.

- Fr. Ulrich Neymeyr, pastor of Offstein, Worms-Horchheim and Worms-Wiesoppenheim, Germany. The bishop-elect was born in 1957 in Worms-Hermsheim, Germany and was ordained a priest in 1982.

- Accepted the resignation from the office of auxiliary from the same diocese presented by Bishop Wolfgang Rolly, upon having reached the age limit.

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