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   VATICAN CITY, 24 NOV 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father:   
      
   - Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Cacador,   
   Brazil presented by Bishop Luiz Carlos Eccel, in accordance with canon 401   
   para. 2 of the Code of Canon Law.   
      
   - Appointed Bishop Joao Mamede Filho O.F.M. Conv., auxiliary of Sao Paulo,   
   Brazil, as bishop of Umuarama (area 13,200, population 413,000, Catholics   
   316,000, priests 64, permanent deacons 6, religious 76), Brazil.   
      
   - Appointed Fr. Pedro Cunha Cruz of the clergy of Sao Sebastiao do Rio de   
   Janeiro, Brazil, pastor of the parish of "Santa Rita" and director of the "Joao   
   Paulo II" Ecclesiastical Faculty of Philosophy in Rio de Janeiro; Fr. Nelson   
   Francelino Ferreira, also of the clergy of Sao Sebastiao do Rio de Janeiro,   
   pastor of the parish of "Nossa Senhora da Gloria"; and Fr. Paulo Cesar Costa of   
   the clergy of the diocese of Valenca, Brazil, rector of the "Paulo VI" Seminary   
   at Nova Iguacu and director of the department of theology at the Pontifical   
   Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, as auxiliaries of Sao Sebastiao do Rio   
   de Janeiro (area 1,261, population 6,095,000, Catholics 3,699,000, priests 619,   
   permanent deacons 104, religious 1,366). Bishop-elect Cruz was born in Rio de   
   Janeiro in 1964 and ordained a priest in 1990. Bishop- elect Ferreira was born   
   in Sape, Brazil in 1965 and ordained a priest in 1990. Bishop-elect Costa was   
   born in Valenca in 1967 and ordained a priest in 1992.   
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