OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, FEB 26, 2004 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Fr. Pablo Varela Server, rector of Santa Maria La Antigua University, as auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Panama (area 13,275, population 704,117, Catholics 633,705, priests 203, permanent deacons 52, religious 350), Panama. The bishop-elect was born in Denia, Spain in 1942 and was ordained a priest in 1970.

- Fr. Jose Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, O.S.A., provincial vicar of the Order of St. Augustine in Panama, Panama and pastor of St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Chitre, as auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Panama. The bishop-elect was born in Chitre in 1956 and was ordained a priest in 1983.

- Msgr. Stanislav Stolarik of the clergy of the archdiocese of Kosice, Slovakia, pastor of St. Nicholas parish in Presov, as auxiliary of the same archdiocese (area 10,403, population 1,120,136, Catholics 678,174, priests 403, religious 469, permanent deacons 2). The bishop-elect was born in Roznava in 1955 and was ordained a priest in 1978.
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