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Wednesday, April 5, 2006

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, APR 5, 2006 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Appointed Bishop Joviano de Lima Junior S.S.S., of Sao Carlos, Brazil, as metropolitan archbishop of Ribeirao Preto (area 8,897, population 942,306, Catholics 756,000, priests 124, permanent deacons 15, religious 207), Brazil. The archbishop-elect was born in Uberaba, Brazil in 1942, he was ordained a priest in 1969 and consecrated a bishop in 1995. He succeeds Archbishop Arnaldo Ribeiro, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese, the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

 - Accepted the resignation of Bishop Attila Mikloshazy S.J. from the office of spiritual assistant to Hungarian emigrants, upon having reached the age limit.
NER:RE/.../DE LIMA:RIBEIRO:MIKLOSHAZY                VIS 20060405 (120)

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