VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE   
   YEAR XXVI - # 4   
   DATE 08-01-2016   
      
   Summary:   
   - Other Pontifical Acts   
      
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    Other Pontifical Acts   
    Vatican City, 8 January 2016 (VIS) - The Holy Father has appointed:   
    - Fr. Juan Carlos Elizalde Espinal as bishop of Vitoria (area 350, population   
   329,000, Catholics 298,000, priests 291, permanent deacons 5, religious 738),   
   Spain. The bishop-elect was born in Mezkiritz, Spain in 1960 and was ordained a   
   priest in 1987. He holds a licentiate in spiritual theology from the Pontifical   
   University of Comillas in Madrid, and has served in a number of roles in the   
   archdiocese of Pamplona y Tudela, including director of diocesan university   
   residences, parish priest and professor of theology and head of pastoral   
   ministry of the Public University of Navarra. He is currently episcopal vicar   
   of   
   the zone of Pamplona-Cuenca-Roncesvalles. He succeeds Bishop Miguel Jose   
   Asurmendi Aramendia, S.D.B., whose resignation from the pastoral care of the   
   same diocese upon reaching the age limit was accepted by the Holy Father.   
    - Cardinal Ricardo Blazquez Perez, archbishop of Valladolid, Spain, as member   
   of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA).   
      
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