OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, DEC 10, 2003 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Valdomiro Koubetch, O.S.B.M., professor of Theological Studies of the Claretian Fathers in Curitiba, Brazil, as coadjutor bishop of the eparchy of Sao Joao Batista em Curitiba of the Ukraines (Catholics 161,500, priests 67, permanent deacons 2, religious 547), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in 1953 in Mandaguacu, Brazil and was ordained a priest in 1981.

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