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Friday, December 16, 2011

OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS


VATICAN CITY, 16 DEC 2011 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Msgr. Jose Leonardo Lemos Montanet of the clergy of the archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, director of the "Instituto Compostelano Superior de Ciencias Religiosas", as bishop of Orense (area 5,281, population 299,489, Catholics 290,275, priests 357, religious 408), Spain. The bishop-elect was born in Barallobre, Spain in 1953 and ordained a priest in 1979. He has worked as a formator in minor and major seminaries, as a professor and as director of the library of the "Instituto Teologico Compostelano".
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