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Wednesday, May 12, 2004

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAY 12, 2004 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Appointed Bishop Filippo Santoro, auxiliary of Sao Sebastiao do Rio de Janeiro, as bishop of Petropolis (area 2,880, population 760,000, Catholics 595,000, priests 109, religious 459), Brazil.  He accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese presented by Bishop Jose Carlos de Lima Vaz, S.J., upon having reached the age limit.

 - Appointed Fr. Ignace Bessi Dogbo, vicar general of the diocese of Yopougon and pastor of the Cathedral in the Ivory Coast, as bishop of Katiola (area 32,835, population 544,776, Catholics 51,075, priests 44, religious 47), Ivory Coast.  The bishop-elect was born in Niangon-Adjame, Ivory Coast in 1961 and was ordained a priest in 1987.

- Appointed Bishop Marie Daniel Dadiet of Katiola, Ivory Coast as metropolitan archbishop of Korhogo (area 22,595, population 687,819, Catholics 25,819, priests 37, religious 70), Ivory Coast.

- Appointed Rafael Llano Cifuentes, auxiliary of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as bishop of Nova Friburgo (area 10,086, population 620,000, Catholics 500,000, priests 74, permanent deacons religious 76), Brazil.

- Appointed Fr. Paulo Francisco Machado, rector of the diocesan seminary of Petropolis, Brazil as auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of  Juiz de Fora (area 10,737, population 667,000, Catholics 533,000, priests 118, permanent deacons 1, religious 212), Brazil.  The bishop-elect born in 1952 in Andorinhas, Brazil and was ordained a priest in 1977.
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