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Thursday, June 10, 2010

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS


VATICAN CITY, 10 JUN 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Appointed Archbishop Luigi Moretti, vice gerent of the vicariate of Rome, as metropolitan archbishop of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno (area 1,398, population 548,000, Catholics 536,000, priests 334, permanent deacons 46, religious 401), Italy. He succeeds Archbishop Gerardo Pierro, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

 - Appointed Fr. Francisco Antonio Ceballos Escobar C.Ss.R., pro vicar of the apostolic vicariate of Puerto Carreno, Colombia, as apostolic vicar of the same apostolic vicariate (area 71,368, population 42,000, Catholics 31,000, priests 8, religious 6).The bishop-elect was born in Genova, Colombia in 1958 and ordained a priest in 1985.
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