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Monday, July 23, 2007

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUL 21, 2007 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Accepted the resignation of the office of the territorial prelature of Moyobamba, Peru, presented by Bishop Jose Santos Iztueta Mendizabal, C.P., upon having reached the age limit. He is succeeded by Bishop Rafael Escudero Lopez-Brea, previously coadjutor bishop of the same prelature.

- Appointed Msgr. Armando Trasarti, previously Vicar General of the archdiocese of Fermo, Italy, as bishop of the diocese of Fano-Fossombrone-Cagli-Pergola (area 1,100, population 128,916, Catholics 126,064, priests 142, permanent deacons 13, religious 209), Italy. The bishop-elect was born in 1948 in Campofilone, Italy and was ordained a priest in 1974. He succeeds Bishop Vittorio Tomassetti  whose resignation for the pastoral care of the same diocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
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