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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS


VATICAN CITY, 7 APR 2009 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed:

 - Fr. Sebastian Kallupura, priest of the clergy of Patna, India, director of the Bihar Social Forum, as bishop of Buxar (area 11,298, population 9,743,835, Catholics 24,956, priests 25, religious 97), India. The bishop-elect was born in Kerala State, India in 1953 and ordained a priest in 1984.

 - Fr. Paul Lortie of the clergy of the archdiocese of Quebec, Canada, episcopal vicar, and Fr. Gerard Cyprien Lacroix I.S.P.X., superior general of the Pius X Secular Institute, as auxiliaries of the archdiocese of Quebec (area 35,180, population 1,143,488, Catholics 1,007,766, priests 762, permanent deacons 90, religious 3,719). Bishop-elect Lortie was born in Beauport, Canada in 1944 and ordained a priest in 1970. Bishop-elect was Lacroix born in Saint-Hilaire de Dorset, Canada in 1957 and ordained a priest in 1988.
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