OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, OCT 7, 2003 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Bishop Jose Roberto Lopez Londono of Armenia, Colombia, as bishop of Jerico (area 3,000, population 215,000, Catholics 213,500, priests 79, permanent deacons, 1, religious 165), Colombia. He succeeds Bishop Augusto Aristizabal Ospina whose resignation the Pope accepted upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Bishop Leonard Paul Blair, auxiliary of the archdiocese of Detroit, U.S.A. as bishop of Toledo (area 21,294, population 1,489,769, Catholics 315,788, priests 265, permanent deacons 238, religious 767), U.S.A.

- Appointed Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, apostolic nuncio in Germany, as secretary of the Section for Relations with States of the Secretariat of State.

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