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VATICAN CITY, 10 NOV 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

- Bishop Jude Thaddeus Ruwa'ichi O.F.M. Cap. of Dodoma, Tanzania, president of
the Tanzania Episcopal Conference, as metropolitan archbishop of Mwanza (area
19,592, population 3,257,000, Catholics 968,000, priests 79, religious 240),
Tanzania. The archbishop-elect was born in Mulo-Kilema, Tanzania in 1954, he
was ordained a priest in 1981 and consecrated a bishop in 1999.

- Fr. Jaime Spengler O.F.M., guardian of the Fraternity of "Bom Jesus da
Aldeia" at Campo Largo in the archdiocese of Curitiba, Brazil, as auxiliary of
the archdiocese of Porto Alegre (area 13,753, population 3,227,700, Catholics
2,401,782, priests 353, permanent deacons 56, religious 1,750), Brazil. The
bishop-elect was born in Blumenau, Brazil in 1960 and ordained a priest in
1990.

- Claude Prudhomme, professor of modern history at the University "Louis
Lumiere - Lyon 2" in Lyon, France, as a member of the Pontifical Committee for
Historical Sciences.
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