OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAY 16, 2006 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Appointed Bishop Donald W. Wuerl of Pittsburgh, U.S.A., as metropolitan archbishop of Washington (area 5,447, population 2,630,894, Catholics 578,796, priests 1,166, permanent deacons 187, religious 1,677), U.S.A. The archbishop-elect was born in Pittsburgh in 1940, he was ordained a priest in 1966 and consecrated a bishop in 1986. He succeeds Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese, the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

 - Appointed Bishop James Peter Sartain of Little Rock, U.S.A., as bishop of Joliet in Illinois (area 10,920, population 1,768,390, Catholics 636,862, priests 293, permanent deacons 178, religious 779), U.S.A. He succeeds Bishop Joseph L. Imesch, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese, the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Bishop Pablo Jaime Galimberti Di Vietri of San Jose de Mayo, Uruguay, as bishop of Salto (area 49,295, population 368,372, Catholics 278,000, priests 31, religious 91), Uruguay. He succeeds Bishop Daniel Gil Zorrilla S.J., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese, the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
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