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Friday, June 11, 2010

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 11 JUN 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Appointed Bishop William Patrick Callahan O.F.M. Conv., auxiliary of the archdiocese of Milwaukee, U.S.A., as bishop of La Crosse (area 39,037, population 902,000, Catholics 207,000, priests 189, permanent deacons 42, religious 412), U.S.A.

 - Appointed Bishop Anacleto Cordeiro Goncalves de Oliveira, auxiliary of Lisbon, Portugal, as bishop of Viana do Castelo (area 2,108, population 252,350, Catholics 245,725, priests 178, religious 128), Portugal. He succeeds Bishop Jose Augusto Martins Fernandes Pedreira, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

 - Appointed Fr. Celmo Lazzari C.S.I., vicar general of the Congregation of St. Joseph (Giuseppini del Muraldo), as apostolic vicar of the apostolic vicariate of Napo (area 24,600, population 102,760, Catholics 85,226, priests 23, religious 73), Ecuador. The bishop-elect was born in Garibaldi, Brazil in 1956 and ordained a priest in 1982. He succeeds Bishop Paolo Mietto C.S.I., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same apostolic vicariate the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
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