OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

Vatican City,  (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Jaime Calderon Calderon, rector of the major seminary of the diocese of Zamora, Mexico, as auxiliary of the same diocese (area 12,000, population 1,642,000, Catholics 1,477,000, priests 345, religious 858). The bishop-elect was born in Churintzio, Mexico in 1966 and ordained a priest in 1991. He studied in Mexico and Rome and, among other roles, is a judge of the ecclesiastical tribunal of Zamora and president of the Organisation of Mexican Seminaries (OSMEX).