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Friday, April 2, 2004

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, APR 2, 2004 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Appointed Msgr. Ernesto Mandara, director of the Office for Building Churches and secretary general of the Work of Preservation of the Faith and provost of new churches in Rome, as auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Rome for the central pastoral section (area: 881, population: 2,787,206, Catholics: 2,454,000,  priests: 5,410, permanent deacons: 84, religious: 27,605), Italy.  The bishop-elect was born in Positano, Italy in 1952 and was ordained a priest in 1978.

 - Entrusted Bishop Luigi Moretti, vice-gerent of the diocese of Rome, with the eastern pastoral section of the diocese.

- Appointed Msgr. Ramon Castro Castro, nunciature counselor in the Secretariat of State, as auxiliary bishop of Yucatan (area: 39,340, population: 1,785,054, Catholics: 1,521,937, priests: 212, permanent deacons: 18, religious: 597), Mexico. The bishop-elect was born in Teocuitatlan de Corono, Mexico in 1956 and was ordained a priest 1982.

 - Appointed Fr. Jose Rafael Palma Capetillo, pastor and counselor of the archdiocesan curia of Yucatan, auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Yucatan, Mexico.  The bishop-elect was born in Meride, Mexico in 1955 and was ordained a priest in 1981.

 - Appointed Msgr. Stanislav Zvolensky, vicar general of the archdiocese of Bratislava-Trnava, Slovakia, as auxiliary bishop of the same archdiocese (area: 14,000, population: 1,905,148, Catholics: 1,350,326, priests: 707, permanent deacons 8,  religious: 1,587).  The bishop-elect was born in Slovakia in 1958 and was ordained a priest in 1982.

 - Appointed Fr. Jan Orosch, pastor of Sturovo in the archdiocese of Bratislava-Trnava, Slovakia, as auxiliary bishop of the same archdiocese.  The bishop-elect was born in Bratislava, Slovakia in 1953 and was ordained a priest in 1976.

 - Accepted the resignation from the office of auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Bratislava-Trnava, Slovakia, presented by Bishop Dominik Toth upon having reached the age limit.

 - Accepted the resignation from the office of auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Bratislava-Trnava, Slovakia, presented by Bishop Stafan Vrablec upon having reached the age limit.
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