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Monday, July 19, 2004

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUL 17, 2004 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Appointed Bishop Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimeno, S.J., apostolic vicar in Jaen, Peru, as metropolitan archbishop of Huancayo (area 15,145, population 783,107, Catholics 720,224, priests 63, religious 108), Peru.  The archbishop-elect was born in Lima, Peru in 1944 and was ordained a priest in 1971.

- Elevated Bishop Slawoj Leszek Glodz, military ordinary for Poland, to the dignity of archbishop.
NER:NA/.../BARRETO:GLODZ        VIS 20040719 (80)

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