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Wednesday, June 2, 2004

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUN 2, 2004 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Bishop Bruno Gamberini of Braganca Paulista, Brazil as metropolitan archbishop of Campinas (area 2,134, population 1,694,021, Catholics 1,235,435, priests 159, permanent deacons 4, religious 511), Brazil. Archbishop-elect Gamberini was born in 1950 in Milan, ordained a priest in 1974 and a bishop in 1995. He succeeds Archbishop Gilberto Pereira Lopes whose resignation the Pope accepted upon having reached the age limit.

- Accepted the resignation to the pastoral care of the diocese of Tarija, Bolivia presented by Bishop Adhemar Esquivel Kohenque upon having reached the age limit.
NER:RE/.../GAMBERINI:PEREIRA:ESQUIVEL            VIS 20040602 (100)

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