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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 4 JUN 2008 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Appointed Bishop Domingo Diaz Martinez of Tuxpan, Mexico, as metropolitan archbishop of Tulancingo (area 10,696, population 1,477,935, Catholics 1,344,921, priests 174, permanent deacons 2, religious 198), Mexico. The archbishop-elect was born in Queretaro, Mexico in 1948, he was ordained a priest in 1977 and consecrated a bishop in 2002. He succeeds Archbishop Pedro Aranda Diaz-Munoz, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

 - Appointed Msgr. Paul Ssmogerere, vicar general of Kampala, Uganda, as bishop of Kasana-Luweero (area 8,539, population 682,874, Catholics 209,792, priests 53, religious 64), Uganda. The bishop-elect was born in Kusubi, Uganda in 1956 and ordained a priest in 1983.
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