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Friday, June 11, 2004

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUN 10, 2004 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Bishop Anthony Anandarayar of Ootacamund, India as metropolitan archbishop of Pondicherry and Cuddalore (area 15,250, population 6,413,945, Catholics 299,667, priests 163, religious 956), India.  He accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese presented by Archbishop Michael Augustin in accordance with Canon 401, para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.

- Appointed Bishop Robert Christopher Ndlovu of Hwange, Zimbabwe as metropolitan archbishop of Harare (area 63,555, population 4,771,838, Catholics 379,291, priests 129, religious 574), Zimbabwe. The archbishop-elect was born in 1955 in the diocese of Hwange, was ordained a priest in 1983 and a bishop in 1999.
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