OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 10 DEC 2008 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Manuel Felipe Diaz Sanchez of Carupano, Venezuela, as metropolitan archbishop of Calabozo (area 32,000, population 570,000, Catholics 528,000, priests 25, permanent deacons 12, religious 26), Venezuela. The archbishop-elect was born in Araure, Venezuela in 1955, he was ordained a priest in 1979 and consecrated a bishop in 1997.
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