OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAR 21, 2007 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Odilo Pedro Scherer, auxiliary of Sao Paulo, Brazil as metropolitan archbishop of the same archdiocese (area 1,645, population 7,060,750, Catholics 5,215,000, priests 941, permanent deacons 30, religious 2,825). The archbishop-elect was born in Sao Francisco, Brazil in 1949, he was ordained a priest in 1976, and consecrated a bishop in 2002.
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