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   VATICAN CITY, 4 NOV 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father:   
      
   - Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the archdiocese of   
   Parakou, Benin, presented by Archbishop Fidele Agbatchi, in accordance with   
   canon 401 para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.   
      
   - Appointed Bishop Juan Alberto Puiggari of Mar del Plata, Argentina, as   
   archbishop of Parana (area 30,348, population 578,000, Catholics 520,200,   
   priests 144, religious 170), Argentina. The archbishop-elect was born in Buenos   
   Aires, Argentina in 1949, he was ordained a priest in 1976 and consecrated a   
   bishop in 1998. He succeeds Archbishop Mario Luis Bautista Maulion, whose   
   resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father   
   accepted, upon having reached the age limit.   
      
   - Appointed Bishop Thaddeus Cho Hwan-kil, auxiliary and diocesan administrator   
   of the archdiocese of Daegu, Korea, as archbishop of the same archdiocese (area   
   9,128, population 4,469,943, Catholics 442,794, priests 382, religious 1,187).   
   The archbishop-elect was born in Hwa-Won, Korea in 1954, he was ordained a   
   priest in 1981 and consecrated a bishop in 2007.   
   RE:NER/VIS 20101104 (180)   
      
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