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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, 24 NOV 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Cacador,
Brazil presented by Bishop Luiz Carlos Eccel, in accordance with canon 401
para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.

- Appointed Bishop Joao Mamede Filho O.F.M. Conv., auxiliary of Sao Paulo,
Brazil, as bishop of Umuarama (area 13,200, population 413,000, Catholics
316,000, priests 64, permanent deacons 6, religious 76), Brazil.

- Appointed Fr. Pedro Cunha Cruz of the clergy of Sao Sebastiao do Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, pastor of the parish of "Santa Rita" and
director of the "Joao
Paulo II" Ecclesiastical Faculty of Philosophy in Rio de Janeiro; Fr. Nelson
Francelino Ferreira, also of the clergy of Sao Sebastiao do Rio de Janeiro,
pastor of the parish of "Nossa Senhora da Gloria"; and Fr. Paulo
Cesar Costa of
the clergy of the diocese of Valenca, Brazil, rector of the "Paulo
VI" Seminary
at Nova Iguacu and director of the department of theology at the Pontifical
Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, as auxiliaries of Sao Sebastiao do Rio
de Janeiro (area 1,261, population 6,095,000, Catholics 3,699,000, priests 619,
permanent deacons 104, religious 1,366). Bishop-elect Cruz was born in Rio de
Janeiro in 1964 and ordained a priest in 1990. Bishop- elect Ferreira was born
in Sape, Brazil in 1965 and ordained a priest in 1990. Bishop-elect Costa was
born in Valenca in 1967 and ordained a priest in 1992.
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