OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 13 JAN 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Appointed Bishop Pascal Wintzer, apostolic administrator of the archdiocese of Poitiers, France, as archbishop of the same archdiocese (area 12,990, population 778,171, Catholics 659,000, priests 273, permanent deacons 40, religious 493).

 - Appointed Bishop Lawrence Pius Dorairaj, auxiliary of Madras and Myalpore, India, as bishop of Dharmapuri (area 8,327, population 2,999,731, Catholics 54,316, priests 83, religious 307). India. He succeeds Bishop Joseph Anthony Irudayaraj S.D.B., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
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