OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUL 3, 2003 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Msgr. Amadeo Rodriguez Magro, vicar general of the archdiocese of Merida-Badajoz, Spain, as bishop of Plasencia (area 10,000, population 274,561, Catholics 270,494, priests 204, religious 481), Spain. The bishop-elect was born in San Jorge de Alor, Spain in 1946 and was ordained a priest in 1970.

- Archbishop George Panikulam, apostolic nuncio in Honduras, as apostolic nuncio in Mozambique.

- Bishop Hans-Josef Becker, auxiliary of the archdiocese of Paderborn, Germany as metropolitan archbishop of the same archdiocese (area 14,754, population 4,934,408, Catholics 1,786,330, priests 1,210, permanent deacons 116, religious 2,416). The archbishop-elect was born in Warstein-Belecke, Germany in 1948 and was ordained a priest in 1977.

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