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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 4 NOV 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of
Parakou, Benin, presented by Archbishop Fidele Agbatchi, in accordance with
canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.

- Appointed Bishop Juan Alberto Puiggari of Mar del Plata, Argentina, as
archbishop of Parana (area 30,348, population 578,000, Catholics 520,200,
priests 144, religious 170), Argentina. The archbishop-elect was born in Buenos
Aires, Argentina in 1949, he was ordained a priest in 1976 and consecrated a
bishop in 1998. He succeeds Archbishop Mario Luis Bautista Maulion, whose
resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father
accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Bishop Thaddeus Cho Hwan-kil, auxiliary and diocesan administrator
of the archdiocese of Daegu, Korea, as archbishop of the same archdiocese (area
9,128, population 4,469,943, Catholics 442,794, priests 382, religious 1,187).
The archbishop-elect was born in Hwa-Won, Korea in 1954, he was ordained a
priest in 1981 and consecrated a bishop in 2007.
RE:NER/VIS 20101104 (180)

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