VATICAN CITY, 15 APR 2008 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Nestor Montesdeoca Becerra S.D.B., director of the Don Bosco Salesian Community of Quito - La Tola, Ecuador, as apostolic vicar of the apostolic vicariate of Mendez (area 25,691, population 183,348, Catholics 120,000, priests 38, religious 98), Ecuador. The bishop-elect was born in El Pan in 1957 and ordained a priest in 1986. He succeeds Bishop Pietro Gabrielli S.D.B., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same apostolic vicariate the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
NER:RE/.../MONTESDEOCA:GABRIELLI VIS 20080415 (100)
NER:RE/.../MONTESDEOCA:GABRIELLI VIS 20080415 (100)
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