Vatican
City, 19 July 2013 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father:
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appointed Bishop Julian C. Porteous as archbishop of Hobart (area
67,914, population 514,900, Catholics 94,600, priests 49, permanent
deacons 2, religious 101), Australia. Bishop Porteous, previously
auxiliary of Sydney, Australia, was born in Sydney, Australia in
1949, was ordained to the priesthood in 1974, and received episcopal
ordination in 2003. He succeeds Archbishop Adrian L. Doyle, whose
resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy
Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
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appointed Fr. Yohanes Harun Yuwono of the clergy of Pangkalpinang as
bishop of Tanjungkarang (area 35,288, population 7,489,000, Catholics
72,797, priests 53, religious 239), Indonesia. The bishop-elect was
born in Way Ray, Indonesia, in 1964 and was ordained a priest in
1992. He has a licentiate in Islamology from the Pontifical Institute
of Arab and Islamic Studies, Rome, and has served in a number of
pastoral roles including parish vicar in Sungaliat, chairman of the
diocesan pastoral secretariat in Pangkalpinang, and currently rector
at the Interdiocesan Major Seminary of Pematangsiantar, and teacher
of Islamic studies at the St Yohanes Institute of Philosophy and
Theology in Pematangsiantar.
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