OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 19 NOV 2008 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Mauricio Grotto de Camargo of Assis, Brazil, as archbishop of Botucatu (area 10,348, population 501,000, Catholics 425,000, priests 54, permanent deacons 12, religious 156), Brazil. The archbishop-elect was born in Presidente Prudente, Brazil in 1957, he was ordained a priest in 1981 and consecrated a bishop in 2000. He succeeds Archbishop Aloysio Jose Leal Penna S.J., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
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