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Thursday, January 3, 2008

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 3 JAN 2008 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Bishop Patrick James Zurek, auxiliary of the archdiocese of San Antonio, U.S.A., as bishop of Amarillo (area 67,185, population 422,448, Catholics 39,609, priests 48, permanent deacons 47, religious 118), U.S.A. He succeeds Bishop John Walter Yanta, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
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