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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 15 APR 2008 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Nestor Montesdeoca Becerra S.D.B., director of the Don Bosco Salesian Community of Quito - La Tola, Ecuador, as apostolic vicar of the apostolic vicariate of Mendez (area 25,691, population 183,348, Catholics 120,000, priests 38, religious 98), Ecuador. The bishop-elect was born in El Pan in 1957 and ordained a priest in 1986. He succeeds Bishop Pietro Gabrielli S.D.B., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same apostolic vicariate the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
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