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Monday, July 18, 2005

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUL 16, 2005 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Appointed Cardinal Jozef Tomko, president of the Pontifical Commission for International Eucharist Congresses, as his special envoy to the closing celebrations of the Slovakian National Eucharistic Congress, due to be held in Bratislava-Petrzalka, Slovakia, on September 18, 2005.

 - Appointed Fr. Albert Vanbuel S.D.B., president of the superiors major of central Africa, as bishop of Kaga-Bandoro (area 95,000, population 230,420, Catholics 50,437, priests 17, religious 14), Central African Republic. The bishop-elect was born in Zolder, Belgium in 1940 and ordained a priest in 1967.

 - Appointed Bishop Walter Mixa of Eichstatt, military ordinary of the Federal Republic of Germany, as bishop of Augsburg (area 13,250, population 2,249,020, Catholics 1,536,294, priests 1,118, permanent deacons 129, religious 2,534), Germany.
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