Thursday, November 4, 2010

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 4 NOV 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of Parakou, Benin, presented by Archbishop Fidele Agbatchi, in accordance with canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.

 - Appointed Bishop Juan Alberto Puiggari of Mar del Plata, Argentina, as archbishop of Parana (area 30,348, population 578,000, Catholics 520,200, priests 144, religious 170), Argentina. The archbishop-elect was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1949, he was ordained a priest in 1976 and consecrated a bishop in 1998. He succeeds Archbishop Mario Luis Bautista Maulion, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

 - Appointed Bishop Thaddeus Cho Hwan-kil, auxiliary and diocesan administrator of the archdiocese of Daegu, Korea, as archbishop of the same archdiocese (area 9,128, population 4,469,943, Catholics 442,794, priests 382, religious 1,187). The archbishop-elect was born in Hwa-Won, Korea in 1954, he was ordained a priest in 1981 and consecrated a bishop in 2007.
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