OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, DEC 5, 2003 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Fr. Ulises Antonio Guti‚rrez Reyes, O. of M., rector of Mercedario Seminary in Palmira-Tachira, Venezuela, as bishop of Carora (area 11,708, population 251,681, Catholics 237,956, priests 218, permanent deacons 2, religious 40), Venezuela. The bishop-elect was born in Pedregon, Venezuela in 1951 and was ordained a priest in 1977. He succeeds Bishop Eduardo Herrera Riera whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted upon having reached the age limit.

- Fr. Ram¢n Jos‚ Viloria Pinz¢n of the Fraternity of Working Diocesan Priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, archpriest of La California in Caracas, Venezuela, as bishop of Puerto Cabello (area 729, population 300,000, Catholics 270,000, priests 15, religious 25), Venezuela. The bishop-elect was born in 1959 in San Felipe, Venezuela, and was ordained a priest in 1990.

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