Vatican
City, 6 December 2013
(VIS) - Today, the Holy Father:
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appointed Bishop Monfort Stima as Bishop of Mangochi (area 11,385,
population 1,483,000, Catholics
523,000, priests 84, religious
197), Malawi. Bishop Stima, previously auxiliary of Blantyre, Malawi,
succeeds Bishop Alessandro Pagani S.M.M., whose resignation from the
pastoral care of the Diocese of Mangochi, the Holy Father accepted,
upon having reached the age limit.
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appointed Fr. Rutile Felipe Pozos Lorenzini as auxiliary bishop for
the Archdiocese of Puebla (area 20,932,
population 4,780,000, Catholics
4,447,000, priests 548,
permanent deacons 2, religious 928), Mexico. Bishop-elect Pozos
Lorenzi was born in 1967 in Rancho San Diego, Mexico and was ordained
to the priesthood in 1993. He has served as pastor of some parishes
in the city of Puebla, as a diocesan assistant of Family Catechesis
and coordinator of Family Pastoral Care, as a professor at the Major
Seminary, and as chaplain of the Servants of the Sacred Heart of
Jesus Sisters. He has served as rector of Puebla's Palafox Major
Seminary since 2008 and is also president of the diocesan commission
for Ministries.
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appointed Fr. Tomas Lopez Duran as auxiliary bishop for the
Archdiocese of Puebla, Mexico. Bishop-elect Lopez Duran was born in
1961 in Atoyatempan, Mexico, and was ordained to the priesthood in
1991. He has served as assessor of discipline and professor of Canon
Law at Puebla's Palafox Major Seminary. He is an instructor judge of
the Ecclesiastical Tribune and works in various parishes. Since 2010
he has held the office of Judicial Vicar of the First Instance in the
archdiocese's 5th Ecclesiastical Tribune.
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