OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 18 JUL 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Appointed Fr. Jose Manuel Garcia Cordeiro, rector of the Pontifical Portuguese College in Rome, as bishop of Braganca-Miranda (area 6,545, population 151,700, Catholics 149,200, priests 100, permanent deacons 4, religious 119), Portugal. The bishop-elect was born in Vila Nova de Seles, Angola in 1967 and ordained a priest in 1991. He succeeds Bishop Antonio Montes Moreira O.F.M., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

 - Appointed Antonio Pacella, official of the "Tipografia Vaticana - Editrice L'Osservatore Romano", as head of the management office of the same organisation.

  On Saturday 16 July it was made public that he appointed:

 - Bishop Julio Cesar Vidal Ortiz of Monteria, Colombia, as bishop of Cucuta (area 2,200, population 848,000, Catholics 774,000, priests 140, permanent deacons 8, religious 268), Colombia.

 - Fr. Fulgence Razakarivony M.S., vice secretary of the administrative secretariat of the Episcopal Conference of Madagascar, as bishop of Ihosy (area 40,900, population 400,000, Catholics 72,000, priests 34, religious 125), Madagascar. The bishop-elect was born in Betsiholany, Madagascar in 1963 and ordained a priest in 1993.

 - Bishop Ruy Rendon Leal, prelate of El Salto, Mexico, as bishop of Matamoros (area 19,457, population 2,018,000, Catholics 1,782,000, priests 122, religious 129), Mexico.

 - Msgr. Grzegorz Rys of the clergy of the archdiocese of Krakow, Poland, rector of the major seminary, and Fr. Damian Andrzej Muskus O.F.M., provincial secretary for formation, as auxiliaries of the archdiocese of Krakow (area 5,730, population 1,601,000, Catholics 1,556,000, priests 2,089, religious 4,501). Bishop-elect Rys was born in Krakow in 1964 and ordained a priest in 1988. Bishop-elect Muskus was born in Nowa Sarzyna, Poland in 1967 and ordained a priest in 1993.
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