Monday, March 5, 2007

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAR 3, 2007 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Bishop Kazimierz Nycz of Koszalin-Kolobrzeg, Poland, as metropolitan archbishop of Warsaw (area 3,350, population 1,533,600, Catholics 1,439,600, priests 1,076, religious 3,011), Poland. The archbishop-elect was born in Stara Wies, Poland, in 1950, he was ordained a priest in 1973, and consecrated a bishop in 1988.

 - Appointed Fr. Hector Guerrero Cordova S.D.B., former inspector of the Salesian Society in northern Mexico, as bishop-prelate of the territorial prelature of Mixes (area 10,000, population 151,000, Catholics 130,000, priests 31, permanent deacons 16, religious 73), Mexico. The bishop-elect was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1941 and ordained a priest in 1968.
NER/.../NYCZ:GUERRERO                        VIS 20070305 (120)

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