Thursday, November 8, 2007

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, NOV 8, 2007 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Appointed Bishop Giancarlo Maria Bregantini C.S.S. of Locri-Gerace, Italy, as metropolitan archbishop of Campobasso-Boiano (area 1,120, population 125,000, Catholics 123,000, priests 95, permanent deacons 7, religious 157), Italy. The archbishop-elect was born in Denno, Italy in 1948, he was ordained a priest in 1978 and consecrated a bishop in 1994. He succeeds Archbishop Armando Dini, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

 - Appointed Bishop Gerald John Mathias of Simla and Chandigarh, India, as bishop of Lucknow (area 45,125, population 25,158,000, Catholics 6,905, priests 79, religious 367), India.
NER:RE/.../BREGANTINI:DINI:MATHIAS            VIS 20071108 (120)


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