Thursday, July 4, 2013

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS


Vatican City, 4 July 2013 (VIS) - Today, the Holy Father:

- appointed Bishop Jose Rafael Quiros Quiros as metropolitan archbishop of San Jose di Costa Rica (area 2.208, population 1,971,384, Catholics 1,383,912, priests 343, permanent deacons 3, religious 703), Costa Rica. Archbishop Quiros Quiros, previously bishop of Limon, Costa Rica, was born in Llano Grande, Costa Rica in 1955, was ordained to the priesthood in 1981, and received episcopal ordination in 2006. He succeeds Archbishop Hugo Barrantes Urena, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

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