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Thursday, September 20, 2007

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, SEP 20, 2007 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Appointed Bishop Fabio Bernardo D'Onorio O.S.B., ordinary abbot of Montecassino, Italy, as archbishop of Gaeta (area 603, population 160,150, Catholics 152,350, priests 81, permanent deacons 18, religious 246), Italy. The archbishop-elect was born in Veroli, Italy in 1940, he was ordained a priest in 1966 and consecrated a bishop in 2004. He succeeds Archbishop Pier Luigi Mazzoni, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

 - Appointed Fr. Cesar Daniel Fernandez, rector of the metropolitan seminary of Buenos Aires, Argentina, as auxiliary of the archdiocese of Parana (area 30,348, population 559,710, Catholics 503,739, priests 124, religious 211), Argentina. The bishop-elect was born in Buenos Aires in 1955 and ordained a priest in 1980.
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