OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 12 SEP 2008 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Salvatore Pappalardo of Nicosia, Italy, as metropolitan archbishop of Siracusa (area 1,341, population 334,600, Catholics 324,500, priests 145, permanent deacons 10, religious 244), Italy. The archbishop-elect was born in Nicosia in 1945, he was ordained a priest in 1968 and consecrated a bishop in 1998. He succeeds Archbishop Giuseppe Costanzo, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
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