Wednesday, June 11, 2008

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 11 JUN 2008 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

 - Bishop Luis Gonzaga Silva Pepeu O.F.M. Cap. of Afogados da Ingazeira, Brazil, as metropolitan archbishop of Vitoria da Conquista (area 25,089, population 751,000, Catholics 563,000, priests 47, permanent deacons 4, religious 58), Brazil. The archbishop-elect was born in Caruaru, Brazil in 1957, he was ordained a priest in 1982 and consecrated a bishop in 2001.

 - Fr. Antonio Carlos Rossi Keller of the clergy of the archdiocese of Sao Paulo, Brazil, pastor of the parish of "Santo Antonio", as bishop of Frederico Westphalen (area 11,473, population 405,000, Catholics 314,000, priests 57, religious 140), Brazil. The bishop-elect was born in Sao Paulo in 1953 and ordained a priest in 1977.
NER/.../SILVA:ROSSI                        VIS 20080611 (130)

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