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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 27 NOV 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Erected the new diocese of Bunda (area 5,530, population 1,023,390, Catholics
335,000, priests 2, religious 2) Tanzania, with territory taken from the
archdiocese of Mwanza and from the diocese of Musoma, making it a suffragan of
the metropolitan church of Mwanza. He appointed Fr. Renatus Leonard Nkwande,
diocesan administrator of Mwanza, as first bishop of the new diocese. The
bishop-elect was born in Mantare, Tanzania in 1965 and ordained a priest in
1995.

- Appointed Fr. Santo Loku Pio Doggale of the clergy of the archdiocese of
Juba, Sudan, vice pastor of the cathedral, as auxiliary of the same archdiocese
(area 25,137, population 875,199, Catholics 679,916, priests 45, religious 56).
The bishop-elect was born in Katire, Kenya in 1969 and ordained a priest in
2001.

- Appointed Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, prefect of the Congregation for
Catholic Education, as his special envoy to celebrations marking the fourth
centenary of the foundation of the "Santo Tomas" Pontifical University at
Manila, Philippines, due to take place on 28 January 2011.
ECE:NER:NEA:NA/VIS 20101129 (190)

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