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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS



Vatican City, 4 July 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Jose Ruy Goncalves Lopes O.F.M. Cap., director of the college of "Santo Antonio", parochial vicar and professor in the archdiocese of Feira de Santana, Brazil, as bishop of the diocese of Jequie (area 18,771, population 628,000, Catholics 545,000, priests 43, religious 36), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Feira de Santana in 1967 and ordained a priest in 1993. Among other things, he has worked as formator of novices for his order, minister provincial and vice president of the Conference of Capuchins of Brazil He succeeds Bishop Cristiano Jakob Krapf, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

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