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Monday, March 29, 2004

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAR 27, 2004 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Fr. Marcel Madila, rector of the John Paul II University Seminary of Kinshasa, as auxiliary of the archdiocese of Kananga (are3a 33,000, population 2,200,000, Catholics 1,320,000, priests 159, religious 294), Democratic Republic of the Congo. Bishop-elect Madila was born in 1955 in Demba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and was ordained a priest in 1981.

- Appointed Fr. Andrzej Dziuba, of the clergy of the archdiocese of Gniezno and teacher of moral theology at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University of Warsaw, as bishop of Lowicz (area 5,806, population 606,414, Catholics 604,354, priests 370, religious 566), Poland. He succeeds Bishop Alojzy Orszulik whose resignation the Pope accepted upon having reached the age limit. Bishop-elect Dziuba was born in 1950 in Zegocin, Poland and was ordained a priest in 1975.
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