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VATICAN CITY, 8 DEC 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Vilmar Santin O.
Carm., vicar of the parish of "Sao Lazaro e Coracao Imaculado de
Maria" in the
archdiocese of Manaus, Brazil, as bishop prelate of Itaituba (area 175,369,
population 203,700, Catholics 194,500, priests 16, religious 26), Brazil. The
bishop-elect was born in Paranavai, Brazil in 1952 and ordained a priest in
1979. He succeeds Bishop Capistrano Francesco Heim O.F.M., whose resignation
from the pastoral care of the same territorial prelature the Holy Father
accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
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