Friday, January 18, 2008

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 18 JAN 2008 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Appointed Fr. Protase Rugambwa, official of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, as bishop of Kigoma (area 45,056, population 1,679,109, Catholics 409,000, priests 70, religious 122), Tanzania. The bishop-elect was born in Bunena, Tanzania, in 1960 and ordained a priest in 1990.

 - Gave his consent to the canonical election carried out by the Synod of Bishops of the Syro-Malankar Church of Fr. Abraham Kackanatt of the clergy of the archieparchy of Tiruvalla of the Syro-Malankars, India, as bishop of Muvattupuzha of the Syro-Malankars (area 19,626, population 14,515,400, Catholics 11,444, priests 40, religious 109), India. The bishop-elect was born in Kallooppara, India in 1944 and ordained a priest in 1970.
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