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Friday, November 12, 2004

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, NOV 12, 2004 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Wilhelmus de Bekker, diocesan administrator and pastor of the ecclesiastical circumscription of Paramaribo, Suriname, as bishop of the same diocese (area 163,820, population 459,281, Catholics 105,635, priests 23, religious 15).  The bishop-elect was born in 1939 in Helmond, Holland and was ordained a priest in 1985.
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