VATICAN CITY, 19 JUN 2008 (VIS) - The Holy Father:
- Erected the new diocese of Kribi (area 11,208, population 150,000, Catholics 77,115, priests 27, religious 8) Cameroon, with territory taken from the diocese of Ebolowa-Kribi, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan church of Yaounde. He appointed Msgr. Joseph Befe Ateba, vicar general of Yauonde, as first bishop of the new diocese. The bishop-elect was born in Nkoabe, Cameroon in 1962 and ordained a priest in 1987.
- Appointed Msgr. Luis Mariano Montemayor, nunciature counsellor, as apostolic nuncio to Senegal and Cape Verde, and apostolic delegate to Mauritania, at the same time elevating him to the dignity of archbishop. The archbishop-elect was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1956 and ordained a priest in 1985.
- Appointed Msgr. Enrico Adriano Rosa, notary of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota, as defender of the bond of the same tribunal.
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- Erected the new diocese of Kribi (area 11,208, population 150,000, Catholics 77,115, priests 27, religious 8) Cameroon, with territory taken from the diocese of Ebolowa-Kribi, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan church of Yaounde. He appointed Msgr. Joseph Befe Ateba, vicar general of Yauonde, as first bishop of the new diocese. The bishop-elect was born in Nkoabe, Cameroon in 1962 and ordained a priest in 1987.
- Appointed Msgr. Luis Mariano Montemayor, nunciature counsellor, as apostolic nuncio to Senegal and Cape Verde, and apostolic delegate to Mauritania, at the same time elevating him to the dignity of archbishop. The archbishop-elect was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1956 and ordained a priest in 1985.
- Appointed Msgr. Enrico Adriano Rosa, notary of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota, as defender of the bond of the same tribunal.
ECE:NER:NN:NA/.../ATEBA:MONTEMAYOR:ROSA VIS 20080619 (160)
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