OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, DEC 18, 2007 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Gaspard Beby Gneba, professor of spiritual theology and liturgy at the "Notre Dame" major theological seminary of Gagnoa, Ivory Coast, as bishop of Man (area 30,750, population 1,500,000, Catholics 76,200, priests 33, religious 47), Ivory Coast. The bishop-elect was born in Tehiri Guitry, Ivory Coast in 1963 and ordained a priest in 1992. He succeeds Bishop Joseph Niangoran Teky, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
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