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Friday, May 13, 2011

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 13 MAY 2011 (VIS) - Today the Holy Father appointed:

  - Fr. Jose Lampra Ca of the clergy of Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, as auxiliary of that same diocese. Bissau (area 11,490, population 1,049,000, Catholics 165,000, priests 64, religious 196), Guinea-Bissau. The bishop-elect was born in 1964 in Blom, Biombo, Giunea-Bissau and was ordained a priest in 1997. He was formerly rector of the St. Kizito Minor Seminary and professor of philosophy in the Major Seminary of Bissau.

  - Archbishop Jose Octavio Ruiz Arenas, emeritus of Villavicencio and formerly vice president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, as Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization. His Holiness also appointed Msgr. Graham Bell, formerly secretary coordinator of the Pontifical Academy for Life, as undersecretary of the same Pontifical Council.
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