OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, DEC 16, 2003 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Archbishop Carlo Caffarra of Ferrara-Comacchio, Italy, as metropolitan archbishop of Bologna (area 3,459, population 937,808, Catholics 919,135, priests 743, religious 1,421, permanent deacons 76), Italy. He succeeds Cardinal Archbishop Giacomo Biffi whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted upon having reached the age limit.

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