OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, SEP 14, 2004 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Paolo Mario Virgilio Atzei, O.F.M. Conv., of Tempio-Ampurias, Italy as metropolitan archbishop of Sassari (area 1,978, population 224,603, Catholics 223,100, priests 162, permanent deacons 3, religious 309), Italy.  The archbishop-elect was born in Mantova, Italy in 1942 and was ordained a priest in 1966.
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