OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, NOV 20, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Marcel Utembi Tapa, vicar general of Mahagi-Nioka (area 18,490, population 1,137,399, Catholics 579,661, priests 71, religious 60), Democratic Republic of the Congo, as bishop of the same diocese. The bishop-elect was born in Luma in 1959, and ordained to the priesthood in 1984. He succeeds Bishop Alphonse-Marie Runiga Musanganya, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, in accordance with the age limit.

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