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Friday, September 21, 2007

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, SEP 21, 2007 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

 - Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of the archdiocese of Mother of God in Moscow, Russian Federation, as metropolitan archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev (area 69,800, population 4,800,000, Catholics 210,000, priests 74, religious 111), Belarus.

 - Fr. Paolo Pezzi F.S.C.B., rector of the major seminary of Mary Queen of the Apostles in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, as metropolitan archbishop of the archdiocese of Mother of God in Moscow (area 2,629.000, population 58,820,000, Catholics 200,000, priests 128, permanent deacons 1, religious 267), Russian Federation. The archbishop-elect was born in Russi, Italy, in 1960 and ordained a priest in 1990.
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