OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

Vatican City, 4 May 2012 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. James Romen Boiragi, vicar general and currently diocesan administrator of Khulna, Bangladesh, as bishop of the same diocese (area 28,236, population 15,343,767, Catholics 33,296, priests 45, religious 104). The bishop-elect was born in Holdibunia, Bangladesh in 1955 and ordained a priest in 1985. He studied in Bangladesh and in Rome and has served as pastor of the cathedral of Khulna and as vice judicial vicar of the diocesan tribunal.