Thursday, October 5, 2006

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, OCT 5, 2006 (VIS) - Today, the Holy Father appointed Monsignor Lucas Martinez Lara, of the clergy of the archdiocese of San Luis Potosi, as Bishop of Matehuala (area 26,912, population 255,923, Catholics 219,148, priests 29, religious 45) Mexico. The bishop elect was born in 1943 in a small town in the Archdiocese of San Luis Potosi and ordained in 1968. At the time, he was Episcopal Vicar of the "Medina Zone" and parish priest for Santa Catalina of Rioverde.
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