OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUL 22, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of San Juan Bautista de las Misiones, Paraguay, presented by Bishop Carlos Milciades Villalba Aquino, upon having reached the age limit. He is succeeded by Coadjutor bishop Mario Melanio Medina Salinas.

- Appointed Fr. Marian Chovanec as auxiliary of Nitra (area 5,321, population 830,828, Catholics 664,968, priests 283, permanent deacons 4, religious 714), Slovakia. The bishop-elect was born in Trencin in 1957 and ordained a priest in 1989 and since 1993 has been professor of dogmatic theology at the technological institute of Nitra.

- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Santa Rosa, U.S.A., presented by Bishop George Patrick Ziemann, in accordance with canon 401, para.2 of the Code of Canon Law. He appointed Archbishop William Joseph Levada of San Francisco as apostolic administrator "sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis" of Santa Rosa.

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