VATICAN CITY, 3 MAY 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father:
- Elevated the territorial prelature of Ipil (area 4,850, population 654,000, Catholics 429,000, priests 40, religious 53), Philippines, to the rank of diocese, with the same name and territorial configuration as before, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan church of Zamboanga. He appointed Bishop Julius S. Tonel, prelate of Ipil, as first bishop of the new diocese.
- Appointed Msgr. Mijo Gorski of the clergy of the archdiocese of Zagreb, Croatia, canon of the cathedral, as auxiliary of the same archdiocese (area 4,246, population 1,237,650, Catholics 1,101,900, priests 562, permanent deacons 7, religious 1,657). The bishop-elect was born in Mihovljan, Croatia in 1952 and ordained a priest in 1977.
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