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Thursday, January 7, 2010

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 6 JAN 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

 - Accepted the resignation from the office of ordinary for Armenian Catholics in Eastern Europe, presented by Bishop Nechan Karakeheyan, and appointed Fr. Vahan Ohanian of the Mechitarist Order as apostolic administrator "sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis" of the same Ordinariate.

 - Appointed Bishop Sebastiao Bandeira Coelho, auxiliary of Manaus, Brazil, as coadjutor of Coroata (area 18,744, population 511,000, Catholics 409,000, priests 31, religious 58), Brazil.
RE:NEC/.../KARAKEHEYAN:OHANIAN:BANDEIRA                VIS 20100107 (90)

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