OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, OCT 2, 2004 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Bishop Paolo Rabitti of San Marino-Montefeltro, Italy as archbishop of Ferrara-Comacchio (area 3,138, population 275,000, Catholics 271,000, priests 185, permanent deacons 9, religious 316), Italy.  The archbishop-elect was born in Castellarano, Italy in 1936 and was ordained a priest in 1960.

- Msgr. Thomas E. Gullickson, counsellor of the apostolic nunciature in Germany, as apostolic nuncio in Trinidad and Tobago, Bahamas, Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Santa Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, elevating him at the same time to the dignity of archbishop. The archbishop-elect was born in Sioux Falls, U.S.A. in 1950 and was ordained a priest in 1976.
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