(NOTE: Because of the excellent service of my ISP, this post got in late even though I immediately posted it after hearing the news from a source at the Nunciature. My ISP's service is really a "global phenomenon"!)
The late Cardinal Jaime Sin's protege', Bishop Socrates Villegas is appointed archbishop!
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From the Vatican Information Service
The Holy Father appointed Bishop Socrates B. Villegas of Balanga, Philippines, as archbishop of Lingayen-Dagupan (area 1,565, population 1,313,000, Catholics 1,084,000, priests 76, religious 57), Philippines. The archbishop-elect was born in Manila, Philippines in 1960, he was ordained a priest in 1985 and consecrated a bishop in 2001. He succeeds Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese the Holy Father accepted, upon having reached the age limit.
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