Vatican City, 8 June 2015 (VIS) – The
Holy Father has appointed:
- Bishop Heiner Koch of Dresden-Meissen
as metropolitan archbishop of Berlin (area 31,200, population
5,680,705, Catholics 407,060, priests 421, permanent deacons 35,
religious 668), Germany,
- Fr. Benito Adan Mendez Bracamonte as
military ordinary for Venezuela. The bishop-elect was born in
Menegrande, Venezuela in 1962 and was ordained a priest in 1990. He
holds a bachelor's degree from the Javierian University of Bogota and
specialised in bioethics at the Pontificial Athenaeum Regina
Apostolorum, Rome. He has served in a number of pastoral roles in the
diocese of Trujillo, including chaplain, vice rector of the diocesan
seminary, director of the diocesan newspaper and parish priest, and
in the military ordinary of Venezuela as military chaplain, director
of formation of the seminary and vicar general.
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