OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, FEB 1, 2006 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Jose Luiz Ferreira Salles C.Ss.r., master of novices in the Brazilian province of the Redemptorist Fathers, as auxiliary of the archdiocese of Fortaleza (area 14,813, population 3,400,657, Catholics 2,406,000, priests 291, religious 1,152), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Itirapina, Brazil in 1957 and ordained a priest in 1985.
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