Vatican
City, 26 January 2013
(VIS) – Today, the Holy Father:
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appointed Fr. Guy Charbonneau, P.M.E., as bishop of the diocese of
Choluteca (area 5,775, population 700,000, Catholics 586,000, priests
28, religious 67),Honduras. The bishop-elect was born in 1946 in
Montreal, Quebec, Canada and ordained a priest in 1970. Between 1970
and 2003 he served in various pastoral and administrative roles on
parochial, diocesan, and national levels in Honduras. From 2008 to
the present he was Superior General of the Society of Foreign
Missions of Quebec, Canada.
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appointed Msgr. Laurent Djalwana Lompo as auxiliary bishop of the
archdiocese of Niamey (area 200,000, population 7,400,000, Catholics
20,100, priests 42, religious 90), Niger. The bishop-elect was born
in 1967 in Koulbou, Niger and ordained a priest in 1997. He has
served as pastor in and vocations director for the archdiocese. From
2003 to the present he served as the archdiocese's vicar general. The
Holy Father has also assigned him the titular see of Buffada.
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appointed Fr. Rafael Garcia de la Serrana Villalobos as vice director
of the Department of Technical Services for the Governorate of
Vatican City State. Fr. de la Serrana Villalobos is a member of the
clergy of the personal prelature Opus Dei.
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