OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUN 16, 2003 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Msgr. Khaled Akasheh, study assistant of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue, as bureau chief for Islam of the same dicastery.

- Msgr. Robert Zollitsch, canon of the Metropolitan Chapter of Freiburg, Germany and director of the department for personnel in the archdiocesan Curia, as metropolitan archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau (area 16,229, population 4,600,000, Catholics 2,124,834, priests 1325, permanent deacons 185, religious 2,610), Germany. The archbishop-elect was born in 1938 in Filipovo, Croatia and was ordained a priest in 1965.

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