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Monday, March 7, 2005

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAR 5, 2005 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Marcel Honorat Leon Agboton of Porto Novo, Benin, as metropolitan archbishop of Cotonou (area 3,222, population 1,640,916, Catholics 580,442, priests 136, religious 475), Benin. He succeeds Archbishop Nestor Assogba whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
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