OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUL 4, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Fr. Alphonse Liguori Chaupa, of the clergy of the archdiocese of Rabaul, and rector of Sacred Heart Seminary of Rapolo, as auxiliary of the same archdiocese (area 39,807, population 404,300, Catholics 221,300, priests 67, religious 211), Papua New Guinea. The bishop-elect was born in Uvol, Papua New Guinea in 1959 and ordained a priest in 1987.

- Archbishop Justo Mullor Garcia, president of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, as consultor of the Secretariat of State.

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