OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, OCT 14, 2004 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Bishop Frederick Francis Campell, auxiliary of St. Paul and Minneapolis, U.S.A., as bishop of Columbus (area 29,282, population 2,383,015, Catholics 236,042, priests 245, permanent deacons 76, religious 402), U.S.A.  He succeeds Bishop James Anthony Griffin whose resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Columbus was accepted in accordance with Canon 401, para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.

- Appointed Msgr. William J. Dendinger, pastor of St. Stephen the Martyr Parish in Omaha, U.S.A., as bishop of Grand Island (area 103,560, population 295,176, Catholics 54,549, priests 65, religious 98), U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in Coleridge, U.S.A. in 1939 and was ordained a priest in 1965. He succeeds Bishop Lawrence James McNamara whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese was accepted upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Fr. Kevin Carl Rhoades, rector of Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland, U.S.A., as bishop of Harrisburg (area 19,839, population 2,027,835, Catholics 247,861, priests 161, permanent deacons 45, religious 500), U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in Mahanoy City, in the diocese of Allentown, U.S.A. in 1957 and was ordained a priest in 1983.

- Appointed Msgr. Manfred Grohe, vicar general of the archdiocese of Paderborn, Germany, and Fr. Matthias Koenig, pastor of Paderborn Schloss Neuhaus, as auxiliary bishops of the same archdiocese (area 14,754, population 4,900,000, Catholics 1,771,660, priests 1,191, permanent deacons 129, religious 2,409).  Bishop-elect Grohe was born in Warburg, Germany in 1939 and was ordained a priest in 1967. Bishop-elect Koenig was born in 1959 in Dortmund, Germany and was ordained a priest in 1985.
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