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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, NOV 14, 2006 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed

 - Msgr. Luis Urbanc, rector of the major seminary of Tucuman, Argentina, as coadjutor bishop of Catamarca (area 68,765, population 334,000, Catholics 327,000, priests 68, permanent deacons 1, religious 59), Argentina. The bishop-elect was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1958 and ordained a priest in 1982.

 - Msgr. Pedro Maria Laxague, vicar general of the archdiocese of Bahia Blanca, Argentina, as auxiliary bishop of the same diocese (area 82,624, population 708,000, Catholics 602,000, priests 95, permanent deacons 16, religious 247). The bishop-elect was born in Buenos Aires in 1952 and ordained a priest in 1989.

 - Cardinal Francesco Marchisano, president of the Labor Office of the Apostolic See, as member of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.
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