OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY
Vatican Information Service

Vatican City, 15 June 2012 (VIS) – The Holy Father:

– Appointed Bishop Valery Vienneau of Bathurst in Canada, Canada, as metropolitan archbishop of Moncton (area 12,000, population 223,000, Catholics 116,400, priests 48, permanent deacons 1, religious 265), Canada. He succeeds Archbishop Andre Richard C.S.C., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.

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