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Wednesday, May 10, 2006

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS


VATICAN CITY, MAY 10, 2006 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Orlando Brandes of Joinville, Brazil, as metropolitan archbishop of Londrina (area 6,594, population 911,000, Catholics 666,000, priests 140, permanent deacons 23, religious 317), Brazil. The archbishop-elect was born in Urubici, Brazil in 1946, he was ordained a priest in 1974 and consecrated a bishop in 1994. He succeeds Archbishop Albano Bortoletto Cavallin, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese, the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
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