OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JAN 13, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Bishop Jose Antonio Aparecido Tosi Marques, auxiliary of the archdiocese of Sao Salvador da Bahia, as metropolitan archbishop of Fortaleza (area 15,217, population 2,602,000, Catholics 2,598,000, priests 272, religious 2,423), Brazil. The archbishop-elect was born in Sao Carlos, Brazil, in 1948, was ordained a priest in 1974 and received episcopal ordination in 1991.

- Archbishop Geraldo Majella Agnelo, secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, as metropolitan archbishop of Sao Salvador da Bahia (area 5,277, population 3,700,000, Catholics 3,200,000, priests 245, religious 901), Brazil.

- Bishop Jose Palma, auxiliary of Cebu, as bishop of Calbayog (area 5,609, population 589,373, Catholics 565,798, priests 55, religious 91), the Philippines.

- Msgr. Antonieto Cabajog, of the diocesan clergy of Tagbilaran, as auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Cebu (area 5,088, population 3,031,012, Catholics 2,622,735, priests 443, religious 1,103), the Philippines. The bishop-elect was born in Botoc, the Philippines, in 1956, was ordained a priest in 1981 and up until now has been pastor of Tagbilaran.

- Bishop Gerard-Joseph Deschamps, S.M.M., of Daru-Kiunga, as bishop of Bereina (area 19,146, population 86,400, Catholics 58,800, priests 18, religious 54), Papua New Guinea.

- Bishop Gilles Cote, S.M.M., auxiliary of the diocese of Daru-Kiunga, as bishop of this diocese (area 99,600, population 110,000, Catholics 29,020, priests 16, religious 56), Papua New Guinea.

- Fr. Buti Joseph Tlhagale, O.M.I., as metropolitan archbishop of Bloemfontein (area 64,393, population 984,618, Catholics 96,903, priests 28, religious 107), South Africa.

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