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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

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

- Appointed Bishop Jozef Guzdek, auxiliary of Krakow, Poland, as military
ordinary of Poland.

- Accepted the resignation from the office of auxiliary of Hildesheim, Germany,
presented by Bishop Hans-Georg Koitz, upon having reached the age limit.

- Appointed Fr. Heinz-Gunter Bongartz of the clergy of Hildesheim, Germany,
director of the "pastoral personnel" department of the diocesan
curia and canon
of the cathedral chapter of Hildesheim, as auxiliary of that diocese (area
30,000, population 5,700,000, Catholics 634,365, priests 420, permanent deacons
99, religious 424). The bishop-elect was born in Gutersloh, Germany in 1955 and
ordained a priest in 1982.

- Appointed as counsellors of the Apostolic Penitentiary Fr. Enrique Colom
Costa, professor of moral theology at Rome's Pontifical University of the Holy
Cross, and Fr. Paolo Carlotti S.D.B., professor of fundamental moral theology
at Rome's Pontifical Salesian University.
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