Thursday, May 13, 2004

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS


VATICAN CITY, MAY 13, 2004 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Msgr. Jose Anibal Casasola Sosa, diocesan administrator of the diocese of Zacapa y Santo Cristo de Esquipulas and pastor of Gualan, Guatemala, as bishop of  the same ecclesiastical circumscription (Zacapa area 5,066, population 480,000, Catholics 408,000, priests 28, permanent deacons 1, religious 61: Santo Cristo de Esquipulas area 532, population 45,000, Catholics 34,200, religious 42), Guatemala.  The bishop-elect was born in 1949 in La Union, Guatemala and was ordained a priest in 1977.
NER/.../CASASOLA                  VIS 20040513 (90)


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