VATICAN CITY, 23 JUL 2008 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Antonio Emidio Vilar S.D.B., pastor and director of the Salesian community of Bom Retiro, Brazil, as bishop of Sao Luiz de Caceres (area 100,000, population 416,000, Catholics 326,000, priests 41, religious 96), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Guardinha, Brazil in 1957 and ordained a priest in 1986. He succeeds Bishop Jose Vieira de Lima T.O.R., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
NER:RE/.../VILAR:VIEIRA VIS 20080723 (100)
NER:RE/.../VILAR:VIEIRA VIS 20080723 (100)
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