OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 5 FEB 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Msgr. Arunas Poniskaitis, vicar general of Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, as auxiliary of the archdiocese of Vilnius (area 9,644, population 822,000, Catholics 543,000, priests 156, permanent deacons 1, religious 257), Lithuania. The bishop-elect was born in Sakiai, Lithuania in 1966 and ordained a priest in 1992.
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