Monday, December 3, 2007

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, DEC 3, 2007 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Appointed Fr. Isaac Jogues Agbemenya, diocesan administrator of Aneho, Togo, as bishop of the same diocese (area 2,712, population 824,170, Catholics 182,265, priests 64, religious 48). The bishop-elect was born in Kpeme, Togo in 1958 and ordained a priest in 1985.

 - Appointed Msgr. Michael Akasius Toppo of the clergy of the diocese of Tezpur, India, bursar and diocesan chancellor, as bishop of the same diocese (area 38,700, population 4,382,000, Catholics 110,000, priests 77, religious 213). The bishop-elect was born in Gormara, India in 1955 and ordained a priest in 1986. He succeeds Bishop Robert Kerketta S.D.B., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

  On Saturday, December 1, it was made public that he appointed Msgr. Ermes Giovanni Viale, official in the Section for General Affairs of the Secretariat of State, as bureau chief at the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
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