OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, DEC 4, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Bishop Michael John Sheridan, auxiliary of St. Louis, U.S.A., as coadjutor of Colorado Springs (area 40,285, population 722,672, Catholics 82,227, priests 61, permanent deacons 20, religious 164), U.S.A.

- Appointed Msgr. Giuseppe Pinto, nunciature counsellor, as apostolic nuncio in Senegal and apostolic delegate in Mauritania, at the same time elevating him to the dignity of archbishop. The archbishop-elect was born in Noci, Italy, in 1952, and ordained to the priesthood in 1978.

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