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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 25 NOV 2008 (VIS) - The Holy Father erected the new diocese of Gomez Palacio (area 27,405, population 531,465, Catholics 475,129, priests 49, religious 70) Mexico, with territory taken from the archdiocese of Durango, making it a suffragan of the same metropolitan church. He appointed Bishop Jose Guadalupe Torres Campos, auxiliary of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, as first bishop of the new diocese.
ECE:NER/.../TORRES                            VIS 20081125 (70)

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