OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, OCT 10, 2003 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Bishop David Allen Zubik, auxiliary of Pittsburgh, U.S.A., as bishop of the diocese of Green Bay (area 27,775, population 951,159, Catholics 375,708, priests 333, permanent deacons 92, religious 800), U.S.A. He succeeds Bishop Robert Joseph Banks whose resignation was accepted by the Holy Father upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Fr. Juan Ignacio Gonzalez Errazuriz, of the Personal Prelature of Opus Dei, as bishop of San Bernardo (area 1,153, population 756,000, Catholics 568.000, priests 46, permanent deacons 8, religious 166), Chile. The bishop-elect was born in 1956 in Santiago de Chile, Chile and was ordained a priest in 1993. The Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese presented by Bishop Orozimbo Fuenzalida upon having reached the age limit.

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