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   VATICAN CITY, 27 NOV 2010 (VIS) - The Holy Father:   
      
   - Erected the new diocese of Bunda (area 5,530, population 1,023,390, Catholics   
   335,000, priests 2, religious 2) Tanzania, with territory taken from the   
   archdiocese of Mwanza and from the diocese of Musoma, making it a suffragan of   
   the metropolitan church of Mwanza. He appointed Fr. Renatus Leonard Nkwande,   
   diocesan administrator of Mwanza, as first bishop of the new diocese. The   
   bishop-elect was born in Mantare, Tanzania in 1965 and ordained a priest in   
   1995.   
      
   - Appointed Fr. Santo Loku Pio Doggale of the clergy of the archdiocese of   
   Juba, Sudan, vice pastor of the cathedral, as auxiliary of the same archdiocese   
   (area 25,137, population 875,199, Catholics 679,916, priests 45, religious 56).   
   The bishop-elect was born in Katire, Kenya in 1969 and ordained a priest in   
   2001.   
      
   - Appointed Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, prefect of the Congregation for   
   Catholic Education, as his special envoy to celebrations marking the fourth   
   centenary of the foundation of the "Santo Tomas" Pontifical University at   
   Manila, Philippines, due to take place on 28 January 2011.   
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